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Noun.

[L.

peripneumonia

, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.

péripneumonie

. See

(Med.)

Pneumonia.

[Obsoles.]

Noun.

[Gr. about, and the lungs.] An inflammation of the lungs, or of some part of the thorax, attended with acute fever and difficult respiration.

peripneumony ‎(countable and uncountable, plural peripneumonies)