noun

• Inflammation of the lungs, arising in the bronchi or bronchioles.

  ‘Infection can slow recovery or cause diseases such as blood poisoning or bronchopneumonia a pneumonia involving inflammation of the lungs.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The lung showed focal bronchopneumonia, multiple thrombi, and focal hemorrhagic infarcts.’
  • ‘Enlarged and edematous lungs, consolidation, hemorrhage, bronchopneumonia, and acute bronchiolitis were also noted.’
  • ‘The most common type of pneumonia is bronchopneumonia, which affects the smallest airways in the lungs (the bronchioles).’
  • ‘Radiographically, SARS is closely mimicked by bacterial bronchopneumonia or other viral pneumonias.’