peripneumony, ‖ peripneumonia Path. Now rare or Obs.
(pɛrɪpˈnjuːmənɪ, -pnjuːˈməʊnɪə)
[a. F. péripneumonie (Paré, 16th c.), in 14th c. peripleumonie, ad. L. peripneu-, -pleumonia, a. Gr. περιπλευµονία (Hippocr.), later περιπνευµονία, f. περί around, about + πλεύµων, later πνεύµων lungs: see pneumonia.]
The old name for inflammation of the lungs; = pneumonia.
| α c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health A vj, A sodeyne laxe folowing a pleurysie of a peripneumony [mispr. peripeunomy] is verye peryllouse. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 167 Excellent for the pleurisie and Peripnewmony, i. the inflammation of the lungs. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 378. 1752 Shenstone Wks. & Lett. (1777) III. 191 The peripneumony under which he laboured..had terminated in an adhesion of the lungs to the pleura. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 483 note, Hooping-cough complicated with bronchitis or peripneumony. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 251/2 His body, by the King's command, was dissected by Harvey, who attributed Parr's death to peripneumony. |
| β 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 745 The malady called Peripneumonia, that is to say, the inflammation of the lungs. 1710 T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 106 A Nitrous Draught..is chiefly prevalent against..Peripneumonia. 1876 tr. H. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. V. 5 Among the Greek and Roman writers ‘Pleuritis’ and ‘Peripneumonia’ comprised the sum of their knowledge of this class of diseases. |
Hence
peripneumonic (
-ˈmɒnɪk) [
Gr. περιπνευµονικός]
a., pertaining to or affected with pneumonia;
n., a person affected with pneumonia;
† peripneuˈmonical a. = peripneumonic adj. (
obs.).
| 1656 Blount Glossogr., Peripneumonical, sick of a Peripneumony. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 204 There arises every Year a Fever, with a great many Peripneumonick Symptoms. Ibid. xi. 386 Shortness of breath, and other accidents, such as use to afflict Peripneumonicks. 1793 Beddoes Consump. 133 Peripneumonic fevers, or inflammations of the lungs. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 134 Dissections of peripneumonic subjects. |