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‖ pneumonitis Path.|pnjuːməʊˈnaɪtɪs, njuː-|
[mod.L., f. Gr. πνεύµων lung + -itis.]
= pneumonia. (See also quot. 1974.) Hence pneumonitic |-ˈɪtɪk| a. = pneumonic 2.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 441 Thus it occurs to us in pleurisy, in pneumonitis. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 160 Pneumonia is the name commonly used: pneumonitis is the more appropriate term, being in conformity with the plan of distinguishing inflammatory affections by the suffix -itis. 1844Dunglison Med. Lex., Pneumonitic, of or belonging to pneumonitis, or inflammation of the lungs. 1918Surg. Gynecol. & Obstetr. XXVI. 32/2 One of the most important predisposing causes of postoperative pneumonitis both in patients coming into the hospital with a recent cold or free from an active cold, is the exposure to which he is subjected during the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours of his stay in the hospital. 1947Radiology XLIX. 284/1 There was no opacity of the eyes, no pneumonitis. 1962A. Huxley Let. 17 Mar. (1969) 930 A cold on the chest which..turned out in the end to be what they called pneumonitis. 1971Sci. Amer. Aug. 47/3 Inhalation of cadmium oxide fumes..can produce acute damage in the lungs in the form of pneumonitis or pulmonary edema. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xviii. 23/2 Pneumonia is a general term meaning inflammation of the lungs; it usually refers to a clinically acute condition caused by micro-organisms but it may result from damage by one or a number of chemical or physical agents. Pneumonitis is a similar term and is sometimes used to describe mild segmental pneumonia, but it is best avoided. |