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bronchopneumonia

[¦bräŋ·kō·nə′mō·nyə]
(medicine)
Inflammation of the lungs which has spread from infected bronchi. Also known as lobular pneumonia.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Bronchopneumonia

 

lobular pneumonia, a form of lung inflammation characterized by affection of the smallest bronchi and by transmission of the inflammatory process to the lung tissue. The inflammatory process in bronchopneumonia is focal in character. Bronchopneumonia may be a manifestation of several infections (influenza, plague, tularemia, and others); it may also be a complication of noninfectious diseases (myocardial infarct, tumors, and so forth).

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