Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun legionnaires'_disease

1 sense of legionnaires' disease

Sense 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)
       => lobar pneumonia -- (pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection)