Definition of "pleuropneumonia" [pleu•ro•pneu•mo•ni•a]

• Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; pneumonia aggravated by pleurisy. (noun)
• An infectious febrile disease of cattle, caused by a mycoplasma and characterized by inflammation of the pleura and lungs. (noun)

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• "There was a concerted attempt to implicate a group called the pleuropneumonia-like organisms as the cause of the arthritic diseases."
• "The Botswana government plans to destroy 10,000 cattle in its ongoing campaign to stop the spread of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, a form of lung disease."
• "In northern Australia buffaloes deliberately infected with bovine pleuropneumonia bacteria exhibited slight fever, but the disease never appeared."