double pneumonia

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   lobar pneumonia involving both lungs

   Broaderlobar pneumonia

Questions about double pneumonia

What does double pneumonia mean?

double pneumonia means "lobar pneumonia involving both lungs".

Is double pneumonia a common word?

double 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.