Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pleuropneumonialike_organism

1 sense of pleuropneumonialike organism

Sense 1
pleuropneumonialike organism, PPLO -- (a mycoplasma resistant to antibiotics that causes a kind of pneumonia in humans)
       => mycoplasma -- (any of a group of small parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection)