Pleuropneumonia

pleuropneumonia

[‚plu̇r·ō·nu̇′mō·nyə]

(medicine)

Combined pleurisy and pneumonia.

(veterinary medicine)

An infectious disease of cattle producing pleural and lung inflammation, caused by Mycoplasma species.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pleuropneumonia

 

a disease in which lesions of a lobe or of several segments of a lung are accompanied by involvement of the pleura in the inflammatory process.

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