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legionnaires' disease meaning and definition
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Definition of Legionnaires' disease (noun)
- acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough
Source: Princeton University Wordnet