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Tussive

Tussive \Tus"sive\, a. (Med.) Pertaining to a cough; caused by coughing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tussive

"pertaining to cough," 1857, from Latin tussis "a cough," of unknown origin, + -ive.

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tussive

a. (context medicine English) Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a cough

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The words were harsh and ugly, great thorny blocks of gargling gutturals and tussive gouts of consonants unsuited to human articulation.