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Hem :: Hem (interj.) An onomatopoetic word used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm..

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

Heaves :: Heaves (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind..

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..

Hack :: Hack (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough..

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

Bechic :: Bechic () Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough..

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

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

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

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 expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm..

Hiccoughed :: Hiccoughed (imp. & p. p.) of Hiccoug.

Asthmatical :: Asthmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient..

Singult :: Singult (n.) A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough..

Pertussis :: Pertussis (n.) The whooping cough.

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

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

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

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

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