lobar pneumonia

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   pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection

   Broaderpneumonia

   Narrowerdouble pneumoniaLegionnaires' disease

Questions about lobar pneumonia

What does lobar pneumonia mean?

lobar pneumonia means "pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection".

Is lobar pneumonia a common word?

lobar 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.