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A common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis
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coughing
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Word definitions for coughing in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cough; the act of coughing. vb. (present participle of cough English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of exhaling air suddenly with a noise [syn: cough ] sudden expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis [syn: cough ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cough \Cough\ (k?f), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Coughed (k?ft); p. pr. & vb. n. Coughing .] [Cf. D. kuchen, MHG. k?chen to breathe, G. keuchen to pant, and E. chincough, the first part of which is prob. akin to cough; cf. also E. choke.] To expel air, or obstructing ...
Usage examples of coughing.
In coughing, sneezing, and the like, the pain produced is not unlike that in pleuritis and intercostal neuralgia.
The expectorated matter is at first whitish, opaque, and tenacious, mixed sometimes with a frothy mucus, requiring considerable coughing to loosen it and throw it off.
When the weather is so cold as to excite coughing, something should be worn over the mouth, as a thin cloth, handkerchief, muffler, or anything which will modify the temperature of the atmosphere before it comes into contact with the mucous lining of the lungs.
If the first few inspirations cause coughing, the smoke should not be evaded as the coughing incites deeper inspiration.
I thought I had consumption, and was continually coughing day and night, and not able to work.
I would have four or five bad coughing spells every day and would cough up mouthfuls of solid white froth, and before I took one bottle it stopped it.
I could not work without coughing so hard as to take all my strength away.
The offensive matter expectorated grew less every day and when I had taken the whole of one bottle I could sleep all night without coughing, and have been well ever since and weigh 178 pounds.
In the morning my coughing and clearing of my throat would almost strangle me.
During the operation he is in full possession of all his faculties, and can assist in any way desired by coughing, or straining, in order, at any time, to complete the protrusion of the rupture and show its entire extent of surface when the sac is laid bare.
The child has fits of coughing or crying, and makes vehement struggles to recover his breath.
Immediately preceding a paroxysm of coughing a sense of impending danger appears to seize the child, and it runs to its mother, or grasps some support, as if for protection.
Brianna ducked under the hanging quilt, turning to reach back for Jemmy, who was alternately coughing and crying, having not liked the cold water at all.
Everyone jerked and stumbled with the noise, and Roger found himself struggling in a confused sort of way with one of the other men, both of them coughing and half-deafened.
If Doctor Neale had been able to stop the coughing before now he would have done so, she was sure.