bronchopneumonia

1. 1.

   pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles

   Synonymsbronchial pneumonia

   Broaderpneumonia

   Narroweraspiration pneumonia

Other forms of bronchopneumonia

plural

bronchopneumonias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bronchopneumonia

What does bronchopneumonia mean?

bronchopneumonia means "pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles".

How many syllables are in bronchopneumonia?

bronchopneumonia has 7 syllables: bron-chop-ne-u-mo-ni-a. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for bronchopneumonia?

Close synonyms include bronchial 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 bronchopneumonia a common word?

bronchopneumonia 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.