noun

• Inflammation of the air sacs of the lungs.

  ‘The authors concluded that inflammatory alveolitis might have been present in severely exposed subjects.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘This second group was further subdivided into conditions that are part of a systemic disease or fibrosing alveolitis (defined as pulmonary disease only).’
  • ‘In contrast, fibrosing alveolitis is a disease that starts in the periphery of the lung.’
  • ‘The general practitioner died from the result of fibrosing alveolitis on 26 January 2000.’
  • ‘Although still in his mid-50s and in the prime of his productive professional life, fibrosing alveolitis had left him severely disabled.’