Primary Atypical Pneumonia (Noun)
Meaning
An acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- The patient was diagnosed with primary atypical pneumonia, a bacterial infection that was not responding to standard antibiotics.
- Primary atypical pneumonia is often misdiagnosed as a viral infection due to its similar symptoms.
- The doctor suspected primary atypical pneumonia when the patient's chest X-ray showed interstitial infiltrates.
- After a week of antibiotics, the patient's primary atypical pneumonia had resolved, and she was able to return to school.
- The outbreak of primary atypical pneumonia at the college campus was eventually linked to a contaminated air conditioning system.