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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
asthmatic
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Indeed, when compared with asthmatics without oesophagitis, asthmatics with oesophagitis had a sevenfold increase in the frequency of hiatal hernia.
▪ Julia Tatnell is an acute asthmatic, as are both her young children.
▪ Kingsley laughed, dry asthmatic squeezes of air.
▪ Oesophagitis was present in 57.7% of asthmatics with a hiatal hernia compared with only 16.3% of those without hiatal hernia.
▪ People with cardiac and respiratory weaknesses, children, asthmatics and those suffering with bronchitis are particularly susceptible.
▪ She is asthmatic, and said she is greatly troubled by episodes of congestion and coughing.
▪ The dust mite, which thrives in warm, moist air, is the greatest source of allergens for asthmatics.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asthmatic

Asthmatic \Asth*mat"ic\, n. A person affected with asthma.

Asthmatic

Asthmatic \Asth*mat"ic\, Asthmatical \Asth*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. asthmaticus, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient. -- Asth*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
asthmatic

1540s, from Latin asthmaticus, from Greek asthmatikos, from asthma (see asthma). Noun meaning "person with asthma" is recorded from 1610s.

Wiktionary
asthmatic

a. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough" n. A person who suffers from asthma

WordNet
asthmatic

adj. relating to breathing with a whistling sound [syn: wheezing, wheezy]

Usage examples of "asthmatic".

There is yet another group of asthmatic subjects in whom the asthma is due to some chronic or repeated infection, such as attacks of tonsillitis, sinusitis, or nasal catarrh.

There are a large number of substances to which the asthmatic subject may be hypersensitive, contact with which is responsible for an attack.

Bee propolis, or the glutinous resin manufactured by bees for fixing the foundations of their combs, will afford relief to the asthmatic by its fumes when burnt.

At this time he was confined to his room with great weakness, similar to that of a person recovering from an asthmatic attack.

Like a dog who chooses to annoy the only asthmatic in the room, Noni had settled her attentions on the one person who was least fond of children.

He had been something of a scourge in his time, all right -- a tough-minded, hell-raising boy wonder who had taken over a floundering Midnight Detective in 1942, when he was twenty-three years old and a 4-F asthmatic, and kept it -- and more than a dozen other detective, Western, love, and air-war pulps -- alive during the war and for nearly a decade afterward.

I vowed that, come what may, I would sing my odes at the Festival, even if contorted in the face from an asthmatic fit.

There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen.

Smoking cannabis (the "raw drug" as the AMA called it) would be beneficial for 80% of them and add 30-a60 million person-years in the aggregate of extended life to current asthmatics over presently legal toxic medicines such as the Theophylline prescribed to children.

She was good with asthmatics, too, possibly because she was one herself.

Hullah, even though she had heard that the baths his nurse -- formidable-looking woman -- administered were effective for asthmatics.

Of course there are asthmatics who do ride—asthma doesn’t stop people who think that racing is worth the wheezing—but no one would dream of blaming a man who didn’t.

That fish seems an asthmatic Hesychast that is losing its faith and accusing God of having lessened the meaning of the cosmos.

He grazes the asthmatic Hesychast, who navigates pensively, frowning, toward the Unspeakable.

Two asthmatic kids with similar medical histories collapse within a few weeks of one another on a Tuesday morning.