Synonyms for Pneumonia
nʊˈmoʊn yə, -ˈmoʊ ni ə, nyʊ-pneu·mo·ni·a

Princeton's WordNet

1. pneumonianoun

   respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants

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1. • Respiratory Disease

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1. pneumonianoun

   Synonyms:
   (Med.) inflammation of the lungs

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1. List of paraphrases for "pneumonia":

   pneumonitis

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1. Lance Turtle:

   Pneumonia is very rarely actually diagnosed down to which specific microbe is causing it. Not all patients with pneumonia have the same clinical features, these can vary. If a pneumonia case looked a bit different to usual, and if there are fatalities, which seems to be the case here, then you might expect to find the cause. But unexplained pneumonia cases probably happen frequently and are not reported, meaning it is hard to know how common things like this really are.

2. Marvin Gakin:

   I've had pneumonia four times, so it would kill me, and I'm very cautious, but I want to keep doing this job.

3. Greg Poland:

   What would increase the suspicion of coronavirus would be if you were short of breath, people can also develop pneumonia from the flu, which has a similar presentation, so either way you're going to want to seek medical attention.

4. Daniel Pike:

   We just thought he had pneumonia, nobody, nobody thought he had this.

5. Megan Kingston:

   It was quite a fight, double pneumonia. The fever for multiple days. The body aches. The bloody noses. Even my eyeballs were in pain.