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Definition of cough

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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..

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

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

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

Chin Cough :: Chin cough () Whooping cough.

Coughing :: Coughing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coug.

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

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

Kinkhaust :: Kinkhaust (n.) Whooping cough.

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

Coughed :: Coughed (imp. & p. p.) of Coug.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..