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Pronunciation / Transliteration: pyeryeom
"그는 심한 폐렴으로 병원에 입원했습니다."
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A serious medical condition in which one or both lungs become filled with liquid and inflamed, causing breathing difficulties.
"He was hospitalized with severe pneumonia."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the ancient Greek pneumōn meaning lung, combined with the suffix -ia denoting a state or condition. The term has been used in medical nomenclature since antiquity to describe inflammatory conditions of the respiratory system.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Pneumonia" is said worldwide
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pneumonie
Transliteration: pneumonie
"Il a été hospitalisé pour une pneumonie."
Lungenentzündung
Transliteration: Lungenentzündung
"Eine Lungenentzündung muss ernst genommen werden."
polmonite
Transliteration: polmonite
"È stato ricoverato a causa di una polmonite."
neumonía
Transliteration: neumonía
"Le diagnosticaron neumonía la semana pasada."
pneumonia
Transliteration: pneumonia
"Ela está se recuperando de uma pneumonia grave."
निमोनिया
Transliteration: nimoniyā
"सर्दी के कारण उसे निमोनिया हो गया।"
肺炎
Transliteration: fèiyán
"他因为患有肺炎住进了医院。"
폐렴
Transliteration: pyeryeom
"그는 심한 폐렴으로 병원에 입원했습니다."
肺炎
Transliteration: haien
"祖父は肺炎で入院しています。"
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