double pneumonia

noun

, Pathology.

1. pneumonia affecting both lungs.

double pneumonia

noun

1. pneumonia affecting both lungs

Word History and Origins

Origin of double pneumonia¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Miss Goucher's heavy chest cold, he at once informed us, had taken a graver turn; double pneumonia had declared itself.

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I had had double pneumonia, and my physician ordered me to leave Boston, and go to a dry climate.

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Parry met with a truly remarkable case of double pneumonia, followed by gangrene, and yet resulting in recovery.

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It was double pneumonia, of that sudden sort which declares for life or death in forty-eight hours.

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In two days she was down with double pneumonia; it was two months before she was up again—a very shadow of herself.

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