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单词 pneumonic
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pneumonicadj.n.

Brit. /njuːˈmɒnɪk/, /njᵿˈmɒnɪk/, U.S. /n(j)uˈmɑnɪk/
Forms: 1600s pneumonicke, 1600s pneumonique, 1600s– pneumonic, 1700s pneumonick.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from Greek. Etymons: Latin pneumonicus; Greek πνευμονικός.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pneumonicus used to treat lung disease (1667 in the passage translated in quot. 1681 at sense A. 2), affected with lung disease (1542 or earlier) and its etymon ancient Greek πνευμονικός of the lungs, in Hellenistic Greek also affected with lung disease < πνευμον- , πνεύμων lung (see pneumono- comb. form) + -ικός -ic suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin pneumonicum medicine used to treat lung disease (1715 in the passage translated in quot. 1715 at sense B. 2). With sense B. 2 compare French pneumonique (1694 in this sense).
A. adj.
1. Of or relating to the lungs; pulmonary. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > [adjective] > lungs
spirital1568
pulmonic1661
pneumonic1668
pulmonary1668
pulmonical1670
pulmonal1748
pleuropulmonary1829
pneumogastric1838
cardiopulmonary1879
broncho-cavernous1890
pneumic1895
intrapulmonary1898
heart-lung1908
intrapulmonic1923
ventilatory1946
pulmonar1977
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [adjective] > disorders of lungs > pneumonia
peripneumonical1615
pneumonic1668
peripneumonic1684
pleuropneumonic1750
pneumonitic1844
lobar1858
broncho-pneumonic1883
1668 W. Needham Let. 10 Mar. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 240 Ye pneumonicke nerves vellicate ye vagus that by its severall inosculations doth pull ye intercostalls & cause ye ribbs to be moved.
1676 Philos. Trans. 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 506 When the Blood does not duly circulate through the Heart and the Pneumonique Vessels; which may sometimes be caus'd within the right ventricle of the heart, or the Pneumonique Arteries.
1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) Explan. Plates sig. c4 A Sprig of the foresaid Branch encompasing the Pneumonic Vein.
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 216 It [sc. the Hydromel]..stuffing up the pneumonic Passages, causeth an Orthopnæa.
1788 W. Black Compar. View Mortality Human Species 169 Those diseases closely connected with the pneumonick machinery.
1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 240 The branchial ganglia correspond in function to the pneumonic portion of the pneumogastric apparatus of the medulla oblongata.
2. Used in the treatment of lung diseases. Obsolete. rare.
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1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain xii. 106 The bechic, or Pneumonic medicines [L. medicamenta pneumonica].
1701 tr. T. Willis Receipts Cure All Distempers §37. 187 Vitriol distill'd with Spirit of Wine impregnated with Pneumonick Herbs.
1721 E. Strother Dr. Radcliffe's Pract. Dispensatory (ed. 4) 214 Pneumonick water 1 Spoonful in an intestine Cholick.
3.
a. Of, relating to, or of the nature of pneumonia; characterized by or affected with pneumonia.
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1800 Edinb. Pract. Med. & Surg. 198 Pneumonic inflammation, however various in the seat, always discovers itself by pyrexia, difficult breathing, cough, and pain in some part of the thorax.
1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 316 Pneumonic, or pleuritic inflammations.
1861 H. L. Scott Mil. Dict. 542 The specific inflammations, such as the iritic, the hepatic, the pneumonic, the syphilitic, &c., all fall before its peculiar superseding stimulus.
1873 P. H. Hayne Mem. H. Timrod in H. Timrod Poems 61 Pneumonic symptoms made their appearance, and hope was gone!
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 122 A pneumonic patient.
1919 T. S. Eliot Let. 27 Feb. (1988) I. 272 There has been a great deal of pneumonic influenza about.
1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xiv. 218 One animal, both of whose lungs were in a pneumonic condition.
1961 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 30 788/2 Among the twenty patients with positive findings on chest roentgenograms, pneumonic infiltrates were noted in seventeen.
b. spec. Of or relating to pneumonic plague (see pneumonic plague n. at Compounds).
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1897 W. F. Gatacre Rep. Bubonic Plague in Bombay 31 Of the 18 cases under treatment, 7 only were pneumonic.
1942 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 35 207 The pneumonic type of the outbreak was not the most suitable for assessing the protective value of a plague vaccine.
1964 Lancet 14 Mar. 619 The plague had turned, as did the great plagues of the past, into the pneumonic type.
1995 L. Garrett Coming Plague (new ed.) ix. 238 Once a rat-driven bubonic form took hold, pneumonic cases in humans soon appeared, spreading the disease with terrifying rapidity.
B. n.
1. A person affected with a lung disease. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > person
pneumonic1681
pulmonic1733
lunger1893
1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Pneumonic, one sick of the disease of the lungs.
2. A medicine used to treat lung disease. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the chest or lungs
lightwort1587
lungwort1597
pulmonic1663
pectoral1699
thoracic1710
pneumonic1715
drosera1801
lungs of oak1856
1715 tr. J. Groeneveld Grounds of Physick v. xxvii. 263 Pneumonicks [L. Pneumonica], by their soft and yielding Particles lubricate the Bronchia.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pneumonicks, Medicines proper in Diseases of the Lungs, where Respiration is affected.
1772 W. Cullen Lect. Materia Medica 42 Pectorals, thoracics, pulmonics, pneumonics, are all terms applied to medicines suited to diseases in the breast, but not one of them has a specific virtue.

Compounds

pneumonic plague n. a virulent form of plague in which there is infection of the lung parenchyma by Yersinia pestis, and which can be transmitted directly from person to person by droplet infection.
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1897 W. F. Gatacre Rep. Bubonic Plague in Bombay 94 I would lay stress on the infectious disposition of pneumonic plague.
1898 Times 19 Feb. 11/5 These early cases..fell chiefly upon the lungs as a kind of malignant pneumonia; and this so-called ‘pneumonic plague’ existed in Bombay as early as February or March, 1896.
1918 A. Huxley Let. 28 June (1969) 156 Then there have been two cases of pneumonic plague in Sussex.
2005 New Yorker 21 Mar. 82/3 If the disease goes straight to the lungs—a variation known as pneumonic plague—the course is shorter and nastier.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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