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

Expectoration :: Expectoration (n.) The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting..

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

Cough :: Cough (v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner..

Croupy :: Croupy (a.) Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough..

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

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..

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

Cough :: Cough (v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm..

Cough :: Cough (v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc..

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

Asthma :: Asthma (n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration..

Hack :: Hack (v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough..

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.

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

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

Singultus :: Singultus (n.) Hiccough.

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