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Noun: Legionnaires' disease
  1. Acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough

Type of: lobar pneumonia

Encyclopedia: Legionnaires' disease