ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aspiration pneumonia mean? 

• ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA (noun)
  The noun ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA has 1 sense:

1. inflammation of the lungs caused by inhaling or choking on vomitus; may occur during unconsciousness (anesthesia or drunkenness or seizure or cardiac arrest)

  Familiarity information: ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the lungs caused by inhaling or choking on vomitus; may occur during unconsciousness (anesthesia or drunkenness or seizure or cardiac arrest)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("aspiration pneumonia" is a kind of...):

bronchial pneumonia; bronchopneumonia (pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles)

 Context examples 

Causes include aspiration pneumonia, necrotizing pneumonia, necrotizing malignant tumors, and Wegener's granulomatosis.

(Lung Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

Many die from aspiration pneumonia as a result of dysphagia.

(Scientists designed the first test to detect dysphagia, University of Granada)