‖ pleuro-pneumonia
(ˌplʊərəʊnjuːˈməʊnɪə)
Also without hyphen, and in anglicized form pleuro-ˈpneumony. Also pleuri-.
[mod.L., f. pleuro- + pneumonia. So F. pleuropneumonie (16th c.).]
Path. Inflammation involving the pleura and the lung; pneumonia complicated with pleurisy; esp. a contagious febrile disease peculiar to horned cattle.
| 1725 N. Robinson Th. Physick 117 By several Authors of good Credit, both these Diseases are express'd by one compound Term, viz. Pleuripneumonia, or a Pleuripneumony. 1843 Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxi. 252 A man, after fever, gets an attack of pleuro-pneumonia. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 442 Pleuro-pneumonia, or lung disease, having broken out in several parts of the county. 1880 Manch. Guard. 6 Dec., In the cargoes [of cattle] landed last year very few cases of pleuro-pneumonia were detected. |
b. Biol. pleuropneumonia-like organism: = mycoplasma. Abbrev. PPLO s.v. P II.
| 1935 E. Klieneberger in Jrnl. Path. & Bacteriol. XL. 93 (heading) The natural occurrence of pleuropneumonia⁓like organisms in apparent symbiosis with Streptobacillus moniliformis and other bacteria. 1951 Jrnl. Bacteriol. LXI. 395 A characteristic of the parasitic pleuropneumonialike organisms (PPLO) is the requirement of serum or ascitic fluid for growth in vitro. 1964 New Scientist 19 Nov. 497/1 The workers in Glasgow have grown pleuropneumonia-like organisms from cell cultures containing leukaemia ‘virus’. 1973 Nature 9 Mar. 83/1 Mycoplasmas, which used to be known as pleuropneumonia-like organisms, are the smallest free-living organisms. |
Hence pleuro-pneumonic (-ˈɒnɪk) a., of, pertaining to, or affected with pleuro-pneumonia.
| 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 71 The influence of pleuro-pneumonic fibrosis. |