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. Jonathan Temte:

   That means that about 1 out of every 4 people in the U.S. that died that week died of influenza or pneumonia or COVID-19, ive never seen it look that bad.

2. Adam Shiroff:

   People tend to breathe less with broken ribs, and that leads to multiple other problems, including a high risk of pneumonia, because they're not taking deep breaths.

3. Roger Marshall:

   The Medicaid population, which is [on] a free credit card, as a group, do probably the least preventive medicine and taking care of themselves and eating healthy and exercising. And I’m not judging, I’m just saying socially that’s where they are. So there’s a group of people that even with unlimited access to health care are only going to use the emergency room when their arm is chopped off or when their pneumonia is so bad they get brought [into] the ER.

4. Liz Cooper:

   The feelings from chemotherapy were like having the flu, pneumonia and severe exhaustion all together, it feels like you drink carbonated metallic gasoline – it does not make you feel very well.

5. William Schaffner:

   Although it's not perfect, it still prevents many, many infections, and even if you should get influenza despite having received the vaccine, it tends to make a less severe infection. You are certainly less likely to get the complications of pneumonia, having to be hospitalized and dying.