| AIN | acute interstitial nephritis; American Institute of Nutrition; anterior interosseous nerve |
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| AIPE | acute interstitial pulmonary emphysema; alcoholism intervention performance evaluation |
| CDILD | chronic diffuse interstitial lung disease |
| CIN | central inhibition; cervical intraepithelial neoplasia; chronic interstitial nephritis |
| CIPF | classic interstitial pneumonitis-fibrosis; clinical illness promoting factor |
| uraemic pneumonia | Terminal infective pneumonia occurring in a patient with uraemia. See: uraemic lung (05 Mar 2000) |
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| fibrous pneumonia | A process affecting pulmonary tissue and leading to deposition of collagen, either interstitially or in alveolar sacs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Friedlander's bacillus pneumonia | Pneumonia caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae, the Friedlander bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Friedlander's pneumonia | A form of pneumonia caused by infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae (Friedlander's bacillus), characteristically severe and lobar in distribution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lipid pneumonia | Lipoid pneumonia, pulmonary condition marked by inflammatory and fibrotic changes in the lungs due to the inhalation of various oily or fatty substances, particularly liquid petrolatum, or resulting from accumulation in the lungs of endogenous lipid material, either cholesterol from obstructive pneumonitis or following fracture of a bone; phagocytes containing lipid are usually present. Synonym: oil pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lobar pneumonia | Pneumonia affecting one or more lobes, or part of a lobe, of the lung in which the consolidation is virtually homogeneous; commonly due to infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae; sputum is scanty and usually of a rusty tint from altered blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| loeffler pneumonia | <radiology> Idiopathic, local, nonsegmental areas of TRANSIENT consolidation, most dense at periphery, reversed oedema pattern, peripheral eosinophilia, benign course differentiate from: chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, mucoid impaction (with or without ABPA) (12 Dec 1998) |