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Definition of Lobar pneumonia
1. Noun. Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection.
Definition of Lobar pneumonia
1. Noun. (medicine) A bacterial infection of the lungs, characteristically showing inflammation of an entire lobe. ¹
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Medical Definition of Lobar pneumonia
1. Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes, or part of a lobe, of the lung in which the consolidation is virtually homogeneous; commonly due to infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae; sputum is scanty and usually of a rusty tint from altered blood. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobar Pneumonia
Literary usage of Lobar pneumonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"lobar pneumonia group in addition to the pneumococcus. ... Per < lobar pneumonia
Bronchopneumonia 32.0 28.5 10 71.5 This high rate for the series resulted ..."
2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1922)
"It is possible that these findings may have a bearing upon the etiology of lobar
pneumonia, and for this reason they are reported here. Methods. ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Rest in bed is also a prevention. lobar pneumonia lobar pneumonia is a communicable
disease which should be classified with the infectious fevers. ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1912)
"It may set up also many local affections and is the nf ninny terminal infections
in chronic diseases. A. lobar pneumonia ..."
5. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1915)
"PNEUMOCOCCUS INFECTION AND lobar pneumonia * DR. RUFUS COLE Rockefeller Institute
PNEUMONIA, in many respects, ... Acute lobar pneumonia seems the best ..."
6. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1907)
"WITH our present knowledge, lobar pneumonia may be best defined as an ... In my
series of cases, the seasons were divided as follows : lobar pneumonia ..."
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