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Kink :: Kink (n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter..

Horehound :: Horehound (n.) A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc..

Expectorate :: Expectorate (v. t.) To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough..

Hoop :: Hoop (v. i.) To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop..

Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..

Cough :: Cough (v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease..

Hiccoughing :: Hiccoughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hiccoug.

Whoop :: Whoop (v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough..

Singultous :: Singultous (a.) Relating to, or affected with, hiccough..

Parlous :: Parlous (a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough..

Consumption :: Consumption (n.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption..

Cough :: Cough (v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse..

Cougher :: Cougher (n.) One who coughs.

Croup :: Croup (n.) 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..

Whoop :: Whoop (n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough..

Hickup :: Hickup (n. & v. i.) See Hiccough.

Pleurisy :: Pleurisy (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity..

Yex :: Yex (v. i.) A hiccough.

Tussicular :: Tussicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a cough.

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