Pneumonic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 264 anagrams from letters in pneumonic (ceimnnopu).
1665-75; New Latin pneumonicus Greek pneumonikós. See pneumon-, -ic
In pneumonic cases the bacillus may be found in the sputum of the patient.
A patient, while delirious with the pneumonic form of the plague, expectorated into the face of an English nurse caring for him.
That the pneumonic form of the plague results from inhalation of the bacillus can not be doubted.
The more fatal form is known as pneumonic plague, and in this the lungs are the seat of the disease.
It occurs in several forms, of which the bubonic and the pneumonic are the most common.
Under these conditions the pneumonic patient sprays plague bacilli into the air while coughing and droplet infection follows.
The sputum of patients suffering from the pneumonic form of the disease is filled with the bacilli.
First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
pneumonic plague had appeared in Manchuria, and was stalking through the land.
The patient has been described by some reports as having “bubonic” plague and by others as having developed the “pneumonic” form.
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