LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE

Meaning of LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE in English

Pronunciation: - ' nerz-

Variant: also Legionnaire's disease

Function: noun

Etymology: from its first recognized occurrence at an American Legion convention in 1976

Date: 1976

: a lobar pneumonia caused by a bacterium ( Legionella pneumophila )

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — also Legionnaire's disease noun Etymology: from its first recognized occurrence at an American Legion convention in 1976 Date: 1976 a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — noun also legionnaire's disease Usage: usually capitalized L Etymology: so called from its first recognized occurrence at a 1976 American …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — Pathol. a type of acute pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila bacterium and characterized by fever, chest pain, cough, and muscle …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — noun also Legionnaire's disease Etymology: from its first recognized occurrence at an American Legion convention in 1976 Date: 1976 : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — ■ noun a form of bacterial pneumonia spread chiefly in water droplets through air conditioning and similar systems. Origin 1976 …
Concise Oxford English vocab
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — [Legionnaires' disease] also Legionnaire's disease n [fr. its first recognized occurrence at an American Legion convention in 1976] (1976): a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — form of pneumonia first identified in 1976 as caused by a previously unknown bacillus subsequently named Legionella pneumophila. The name …
Britannica English vocabulary
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — noun [ U ] a serious lung disease caused by bacteria, especially spread by air conditioning and similar systems
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — Легионеллёз
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — мед. «болезнь легионеров» ( тяжёлая форма пневмонии; возбудитель - Legionella premophilia )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — мед. «болезнь легионеров» ( тяжёлая форма пневмонии; возбудитель - Legionella premophilia )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — мед. «болезнь легионеров» ( тяжёлая форма пневмонии; возбудитель - Legionella premophilia )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — - legionellosis
Новый Англо-Русский медицинский словарь
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — "болезнь легионеров" Болезнь, по симптомам похожая на пневмонию, от которой в очень короткий срок погибло 29 делегатов съезда Американского легиона [American …
LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE — "болезнь легионеров" Болезнь, по симптомам похожая на пневмонию, от которой в очень короткий срок погибло 29 делегатов съезда Американского легиона …
DISEASE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Hansen disease degenerative joint disease Addison disease Alzheimer disease Lou Gehrig disease autoimmune disease …
Английский словарь Британика
DISEASE — I. də̇ˈz]ēz, in sense 1a dəˈs] or (ˈ)di|s]\ noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English disese, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DISEASE — — diseasedly , adv. — diseasedness , n. /di zeez"/ , n. , v. , diseased, diseasing . n. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
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Webster English vocab
DISEASE — a harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism. A diseased organism commonly exhibits signs or …
Britannica English vocabulary
DISEASE — / dɪˈziːz; NAmE / noun [ U , C ] 1. an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DISEASE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DISEASE — ( diseases) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A disease is an illness …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DISEASE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DISEASE — [noun] - (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by …
Cambridge English vocab
DISEASE — n. brown lung disease Hansen disease degenerative joint disease Addison disease Alzheimer disease Lou Gehrig disease autoimmune disease Bright disease …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
DISEASE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ common ▪ obscure , rare ▪ dangerous , serious ▪ mild ▪ acute , chronic , severe …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
DISEASE — INDEX: 1. an illness 2. to have an illness 3. to start to have an illness 4. a short illness …
Longman Activator English vocab
DISEASE — n. 1 sickness, affliction, ailment, malady, illness, infection, complaint, disorder, condition, infirmity, disability, Archaic murrain, Colloq bug The colonel contracted …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
DISEASE — 1. сущ. болезнь to come down with disease, to contract a disease ≈ заболеть to carry disease, to spread (a) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
LEGIONNAIRES — Легионеры
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
DISEASE — disease.ogg 1. dıʹzi:z n 1. болезнь infectious disease - инфекционная болезнь disease of childhood - детская болезнь diseases of the …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DISEASE — болезнь, заболевание - black-lung disease - caisson disease - dust disease - genetic disease - incapacitating disease - notifiable disease …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
DISEASE — болезнь, заболевание - black-lung disease - caisson disease - dust disease - genetic disease - incapacitating disease - notifiable disease - occupational disease - radiation disease
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
DISEASE — болезнь, заболевание - decompression disease - occupational disease
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
DISEASE — disease сущ.болезнь to come down with disease, to contract a disease — заболеть to carry disease, to spread (a) disease …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
DISEASE — 1. dıʹzi:z n 1. болезнь infectious disease - инфекционная болезнь disease of childhood - детская болезнь diseases of the mind …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
DISEASE — 1. сущ. болезнь to come down with disease, to contract a disease — заболеть to carry disease, to spread (a) …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
DISEASE — 1. сущ. болезнь to come down with disease, to contract a disease — заболеть to carry disease, to spread (a) disease — распространять …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
DISEASE — болезнь, заболевание - arthropode-borne disease - barley stripe disease - black shank disease of tobacco - cereal mosaic disease - Chagas disease - communicable disease - cytomegalic …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
DISEASE — болезнь, заболевание - arthropode-borne disease - barley stripe disease - black shank disease of tobacco - cereal mosaic disease - …
Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
DISEASE — болезнь поражать (о болезни); вызывать болезнь diseased - past part. of disease поражать (о болезни); вызывать болезнь больной, заболевший болезненный, нездоровый past part. of disease
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
DISEASE — заболевание, болезнь - diarrheal disease - diarrhoeal disease - notifiable disease - occupational disease - parasitic diseases - water-based disease - water-borne disease
Англо-Русский словарь по строительству и новым строительным технологиям
DISEASE — заболевание; болезнь - industrial disease - livestock disease - notifiable disease - occupational disease
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике и финансам
DISEASE — болезнь, заболевание - disease of mind - industrial disease - mental disease - venereal disease
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
DISEASE — сущ. 1) общ. заболевание, болезнь (нарушение нормального функционирования организма человека, животного или растения) to suffer from a disease — страдать болезнью, болеть to …
Новый англо-русский толковый словарь по менеджменту и экономике труда
DISEASE — 1. сущ. болезнь to come down with disease, to contract a disease ≈ заболеть to carry disease, to spread (a) …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE — noun see: Legionnaires' disease
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FOREIGN LEGION — French Légion Étrangère. French military corps consisting originally of foreigners but now including many Frenchmen. It was founded in 1831 …
Английский словарь Британика
LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE — noun see legionnaires' disease
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEGIONELLA — ˌlējəˈnelə noun Etymology: New Latin, from English legion naire + New Latin -ella 1. capitalized : a genus of gram-negative …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEGIONNAIRE — |lējə|na(a)](ə)r, -ne], ]ə\ noun ( -s ) Usage: often capitalized Etymology: French légionnaire, from Middle French, from legion + -aire …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LEGIONELLA — /lee'jeuh nel"euh/ , n. a genus of rod- or coccus-shaped aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, certain species of which, as L. pneumophila, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE — see Legionnaires' disease
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LEGIONELLA — [ ˌli:dʒə'nɛlə ] ■ noun ( plural ~e -li: ) the bacterium responsible for legionnaires' disease. [ Legionella pneumophila .] …
Concise Oxford English vocab
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LEGIONELLA — n. the bacterium Legionella pneumophila, which causes legionnaires' disease.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LEGIONNAIRE — n. 1 a member of a foreign legion. 2 a member of the American Legion or the Royal British Legion. …
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