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What does bronchopneumonia mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A bacterial infection of the lungs, characteristically showing numerous small foci of infection.
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The most common type of pneumonia is bronchopneumonia, which affects the smallest airways in the lungs.
Radiographically, SARS is closely mimicked by bacterial bronchopneumonia or other viral pneumonias.
Most common finding is bronchopneumonia with patchy air-space areas of increased opacity.
Sections showed early patchy bronchopneumonia, centriacinar emphysema, and desquamative interstitial pneumonitis.
Life-threatening bronchopneumonia may develop particularly in young kittens.
The lung showed focal bronchopneumonia, multiple thrombi, and focal hemorrhagic infarcts.

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