(medicine) An acute febrile disease involving one or more lobes of the lung, usually following pneumococcal infection.
lobar pneumonia
| Sci-Tech Dictionary: lobar pneumonia |
(′lō′bär nu̇′mō·nyə)
| 5min Related Video: lobar pneumonia |
| Medical Dictionary: lobar pneumonia |
n.
Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung, commonly due to infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
| WordNet: lobar pneumonia |
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection
Learn More
 | lobar |
| hepatization |
| Pneumococcus |
 | What is Frontotemporal lobar degeneration? Read answer... |
| How do you get pneumonia? Read answer... |
| What is pneumonia? Read answer... |
Help us answer these
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | Sci-Tech Dictionary. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Copyright © 2003, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1978, 1976, 1974 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Read more |
 |
| Medical Dictionary. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Read more |
 |
| WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Read more |
Related answers
- What are the Differences between lobar and bronchopneumonia?
- What does lobar bronchus mean literally?
- What does lobar bronchus mean literaly?
ADVERTISEMENT
Answer these
- What is Lobar pneumonia?
- What is the macroscopic appearance of lobar pneumonia?
- How can Lobar Pneumonia be treated?
Mentioned in
- Tommy Stevenson (Jazz Artist)
- Oswald Theodore Avery
- Charlie Parker
- Lobar pneumonia
- Bronchopneumonia
- William Taylor White
- Consolidation (medicine)
- William Bendix
- 1931 (chronology)
- 1964 (chronology)
