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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

[Latin.]

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  • A cough.

    December 13, 2008