Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cough.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a cough. Compare
pertussis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A cough.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_Calculus_ and _tussis_ (l. 88) are diseases, the stone and bronchitis, that attacked him.
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850
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_ Periodic cough, called nervous cough, and tussis serina.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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Loquat Syrup: an expectorant for the treatment of tussis and bronchitis;
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Loquat Syrup: an expectorant for the treatment of tussis and bronchitis;
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Loquat Syrup: an expectorant for the treatment of tussis and bronchitis;
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Loquat Syrup: an expectorant for the treatment of tussis and bronchitis;
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_tussis ago_, "I drive away a cold"; and _farfar_, the white poplar tree, which has a similar leaf.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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I have been favoured by Miss Lawrence with one of these letters as a specimen: ” 'T. LAWRENCIO, Medico, S.' NOVUM frigus, nova tussis, nova spirandi difficultas, novam sanguinis missionem suadent, quam tamen te inconsulto nolim fieri.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
reesetee commented on the word tussis
A cough.
December 13, 2008