Crossword clues for croup
croup
- Infant illness
- Hoarse condition
- Harsh cough
- Childhood coughing ailment
- Throat problem in children
- Larynx ailment
- Laryngeal concern
- Laryngeal affliction
- Inflammation of the larynx and trachea in children
- Infection that causes a rough-sounding cough, usually in children
- Hoarseness condition
- Coughing cause
- Common baby ailment
- Child's coughing condition
- Child's ailment
- Bête noire of the nursery
- Infant's illness
- Baby's woe
- A disease of infants and young children
- Harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
- The part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks
- Larynx affliction
- Throat malady
- Part of a horse's back
- Rump
- Disorder in court following short cut
- Disease of the young with fever and breathing difficulty
- Throat condition
- Infant's ailment
- Respiratory ailment
- Cough cause
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Croup \Croup\ (kr[=oo]p), n. [F. croupe hind quarters, croup, rump, of German or Icel. origin; cf. Icel. kryppa hump; akin to Icel. kroppr. Cf. Crop.] The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.
So light to the croup the fair lady he swung,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Croup \Croup\ (kr[=oo]p), n. [Scot. croup, cf. croup, crowp, to croak, to cry or speak with a hoarse voice; cf. also LG. kropp, G. kropf, the crop or craw of a bird, and tumor on the anterior part of the neck, a wen, etc. Cf. Crop.] (Med.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"coughing illness," 1765, from obsolete verb croup "to cry hoarsely, croak" (1510s), probably echoic. This was the local name of the disease in southeastern Scotland, given wide currency by Dr. Francis Home (1719-1813) of Edinburgh in his 1765 article on it. Related: Croupy.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped. Etymology 2
n. (context pathology English) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty. vb. (context obsolete outside dialects English) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
WordNet
n. a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing [syn: spasmodic laryngitis]
the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks [syn: hindquarters, croupe, rump]
Wikipedia
Croup is a type of respiratory infection that is usually caused by a virus. The infection leads to swelling inside the wind pipe, which interferes with normal breathing and produces the classic symptoms of "barking" cough, stridor, and a hoarse voice. Fever and runny nose may also be present. These symptoms may be mild, moderate, or severe. Often it starts or is worse at night. It normally lasts one to two days.
Croup can be caused by a number of viruses including parainfluenza and influenza virus. Rarely it is due to a bacterial infection. Croup is typically diagnosed based on signs and symptoms after potentially more severe causes such as epiglottitis or an airway foreign body have been ruled out. Further investigations—such as blood tests, X-rays, and cultures—are usually not needed.
Many cases of croup are preventable by immunization for influenza and diphtheria. Croup is usually treated with a single dose of steroids by mouth. In more severe cases inhaled epinephrine may also be used. Hospitalization is required in one to five percent of cases.
Croup is a relatively common condition that affects about 15% of children at some point. It most commonly occurs between 6 months and 5 years of age but may rarely be seen in children as old as fifteen. It is slightly more common in males than females. It occurs most often in autumn. Before vaccination, croup was frequently caused by diphtheria and was often fatal. This cause is now very rare in the Western world due to the success of the diphtheria vaccine.
Usage examples of "croup".
Croup examined the figurine minutely, turning it over and over in his hands, a Dickensian curator of the Museum of the Damned contemplating a prize exhibit.
The following treatment has been found very effectual in membranous croup, and is recommended by the highest authorities: Yellow subsulphate of mercury, or turpeth mineral, three to five grains, depending upon the age of the child, for one dose.
There are several quite distinct pathological conditions of the vocal and respiratory organs which have, in popular parlance, been designated as croup.
On the desk, to the right of the inclined part, slowly moving back and forth over the lieutenant's work, stood in tense posture a bronze, or perhaps only plaster shepherd about the height of a dachshund, who, as any dog fancier could see at a glance, was cow-hocked and let his croup, to the onset of the tail, slope much too steeply.
Then, holding the tails, they slipped off the horses' croups and galloped on foot behind them, going as fast as the horses did.
Then they hauled themselves up the tails, leapt onto the croups and bounced forward to the saddles again, and rode standing on them, and then, incredibly, standing on their heads—the horses still going at stretch-out gallop.
Hunter è visibilmente un ranger di livello elevato, il Marchese a tratti assomiglia a un ladro, Lady Porta a una maga con incantesimi di teletrasporto, mister Croup e mister Vandemar sono due assassini potentissimi, Islington un negromante e Richard.
His hide was marbled with black in a lacy pattern across his shoulders and croup, while his mane and muzzle and eye patches were also shiny jet black, in startling contrast to the snowy hide beneath.
I’ve nursed five children, and buried three: and the one I loved the best of all, and tended through croup, and teething, and measles, and hooping-cough, and brought up with foreign masters, regardless of expense, and with accomplishments at Minerva House—which I never had when I was a girl—when I was too glad to honour my father and mother, that I might live long in the land, and to be useful, and not to mope all day in my room and act the fine lady—says I’m a murderess.
From Jack’s childhood, he remembered his mother had put a humidifier in his room when he’d had the croup.
Impassibile, mister Vandemar osservava mister Croup prendere a pedate una lastra di vetro appoggiata al muro.
Many will remember that great epidemic of croup which desolated, thirty-five years ago, the quartiers bordering on the Seine at Paris, and of which science took advantage to experiment on a large scale as to the efficacy of insufflations of alum, now so happily replaced by the tincture of iodine externally applied.
The reader will remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the external tincture of iodine.