atypical pneumonia

1. 1.

   an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults

   Synonymsprimary atypical pneumoniamycoplasmal pneumonia

   Broaderrespiratory disease

   Narrowerpsittacosis

Questions about atypical pneumonia

What does atypical pneumonia mean?

atypical pneumonia means "an acute respiratory disease marked by high fever and coughing; caused by mycoplasma; primarily affecting children and young adults".

What is another word for atypical pneumonia?

Close synonyms include primary atypical pneumonia, mycoplasmal pneumonia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atypical pneumonia a common word?

atypical pneumonia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.