Term: legionnaires' disease: 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
Candidate hypernym: lobar pneumonia: pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection → 1
Candidate hypernym: bilge keel: either of two lengthwise fins attached along the outside of a ship's bilge; reduces rolling → 0
Candidate hypernym: animality: the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect → 0
Candidate hypernym: gong: a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick → 0
Candidate hypernym: candlewick: loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern → 0
Candidate hypernym: ovral: trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel → 0
Candidate hypernym: compound eye: in insects and some crustaceans: composed of many light-sensitive elements each forming a portion of an image → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypericum: large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions → 0
Candidate hypernym: disappearance: ceasing to exist → 0
Candidate hypernym: overheating: excessive heating → 0
Candidate hypernym: yam: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food → 0