Word: lobar
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...slightly elongated germ), which occurs widely in nature and is a common inhabitant of the mouth. It may also cause bronchopneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia. It gives out a very strong toxin, which the kidneys eliminate wth frequent damage to themselves. The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum. Then come the polymorphonuclear (of many-shaped nuclei) leucocytes, which surround the invading germs and eat them (phagocytosis...
Died. Dorothea, 14-year-old daughter of Mayor and Mrs. James M. Curley; in Boston of double lobar* pneumonia...
...Lobar pneumonia is an acute, croupous form in which the entire lobe of the lung is affected...