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Definition of Bronchopneumonia

1. Noun. Pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles.

Definition of Bronchopneumonia

1. n. Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.

Definition of Bronchopneumonia

1. Noun. (medicine) A bacterial infection of the lungs, characteristically showing numerous small foci of infection. ¹

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Medical Definition of Bronchopneumonia

1. A name given to an inflammation of the lungs which usually begins in the terminal bronchioles. These become clogged with a mucopurulent exudate forming consolidated patches in adjacent lobules. The disease is frequently secondary in character, following infections of the upper respiratory tract, specific infectious fevers and debilitating diseases. In infants and debilitated persons of any age it may occur as a primary affection. Synonym: bronchial pneumonia, bronchoalveolitis, bronchopneumonitis, lobular pneumonia. (11 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Bronchopneumonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"There are at the present time no evidences which prove that vaccine therapy influences the prognosis of actual pneumonia. 2. bronchopneumonia (Insular ..."

2. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"bronchopneumonia is the prevalent type of pneumonia occurring before the fifth ... bronchopneumonia occurs both as a primary and a secondary disease. ..."

3. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"79. physical finding is exactly the same as in bronchopneumonia. Developing during the course of measles, whooping- cough, high grade rachitis, ..."

4. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"It is called bronchopneumonia because of this primary inflammation of the smaller ... No single or specific micro-organism is the cause of bronchopneumonia, ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"bronchopneumonia involving the right upper, middle and the lower lobes and the left ... Extensive bronchopneumonia involving all the lobes of both lungs. ..."

6. A Handbook of medical diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1911)
"bronchopneumonia is more prevalent in the winter and spring than at other ... In the great majority of the cases bronchopneumonia occurs as a secondary or ..."

7. Diseases of the Bronchi, Lungs, and Pleura by Frederick Taylor Lord (1915)
"bronchopneumonia. IN this form there is an inflammation of the bronchi, the terminal bronchioles and the adjacent or the terminal air vesicles, ..."

8. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1906)
"The severe form requires powerful expectorants (see bronchopneumonia). ... bronchopneumonia may terminate in resolution in a few days (or after weeks by ..."

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