pneumonias
- 1Plural of pneumonia.
The textbook chapter compared bacterial and viral pneumonias side by side.
Several pneumonias can follow a severe case of the flu.
Note
A plural that exists only because the disease can be counted in kinds or cases. Pneumonia is usually uncountable (a patient has pneumonia, not a pneumonia), so the plural turns up when clinical and pathological writing sorts the illness into types, such as bacterial and viral pneumonias, or tallies separate episodes. In everyday talk the mass noun is the safer choice: say cases of pneumonia.
pneumonias is a form of pneumonia
pneumonia, noun: Inflammation of the lungs caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms. Full entry
- Spelling
- pneumonia → pneumonias: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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