What does Legionnaires disease mean?
• LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE (noun) The noun LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE has 1 sense: 1. 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 Familiarity information: LEGIONNAIRES’ DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.
