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Legionnaires' disease

noun

1 Legionnaires' disease

Acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough.

Polish: choroba legionistów, legioneloza, legionelloza


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