legionnaires
Foreign Legion soldiers
Legionnaires are members of a legion—historically Roman soldiers, now typically members of military veteran organizations like the American Legion or French Foreign Legion.
The word appears in Legionnaires' disease, a severe pneumonia first identified after an outbreak at an American Legion convention in 1976.
Infected, inflamed lung tissue
- respiratoryRelated to breathing organs
- waterborneCarried by liquid flow
- cooling towersIndustrial heat-removal structures
- feverElevated body temperature
cough · inhalation · contamination · hospitalization · immunocompromised · lungs · humidifiers · whirlpool
Military personnel who fight
- infantryGround combat troops
- cohortGroup sharing circumstances
- phalanxMassed infantry formation
- centurionRoman army officer
regiment · battalion · brigade · army · troops · garrison · division · platoon
Disease-causing microorganism
- microorganismMicroscopic living entity
- biofilmAdhesive layer of microorganisms
- aerobicRequiring free oxygen
- rod-shapedLong and cylindrical
cultivation · colonization · reservoir · chlorination · endotoxin · prokaryote · microbiology · antibiotics
Veterans' fraternal organization
- servicemembersActive military personnel
- commemorationsActs honoring past events
- paradesPublic celebratory processions
- reunionsGatherings of separated people
memorial · patriotism · brotherhood · camaraderie · convention · chapter · post · auxiliary
pneumonia
Infected, inflamed lung tissue
- respiratoryRelated to breathing organs
- waterborneCarried by liquid flow
- cooling towersIndustrial heat-removal structures
fever · cough · inhalation · contamination · hospitalization · immunocompromised · lungs · humidifiers · whirlpool · filtration
soldiers
Military personnel who fight
centurion · regiment · battalion · brigade · army · troops · garrison · division · platoon · detachment
pathogen
Disease-causing microorganism
- microorganismMicroscopic living entity
- biofilmAdhesive layer of microorganisms
- aerobicRequiring free oxygen
rod-shaped · cultivation · colonization · reservoir · chlorination · endotoxin · prokaryote · microbiology · antibiotics · water systems
VFW
Veterans' fraternal organization
- servicemembersActive military personnel
- commemorationsActs honoring past events
- paradesPublic celebratory processions
reunions · memorial · patriotism · brotherhood · camaraderie · convention · chapter · post · auxiliary · poppy
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- warrior culturesamurai, knights, warrior, gladiators, berserkers
- warriorsfighter, knight, footsoldier, barbarian, samurai
- French militaryFrench Army, chasseurs, gendarme, cuirassiers, dragoons
- Mercenariesmercenaries, mercenary, hired guns, hired gun, soldiers of fortune
- warrior classessamurai, knights, hoplites, centurions, janissaries
legionnairesconscripts
Compulsory military personnel
draftees · regular army · reservists · irregulars · home guard
legionnairescivilians
Non-military population
non-members · outsiders · independents · lone wolves · unaffiliated
legionnairescivilians
Non-military population
pacifists · non-combatants · conscientious objectors · draft dodgers · deserters
- legionnaires' diseaseBacterial pneumonia from water systems
- Legionnaires diseaseBacterial lung infection from water