Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to a cough.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Pertaining to a cough; caused by coughing.
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- adjective medicine Related to, caused by, or accompanied by a
cough
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Medicinally, they have been used as anti-viral, anti-parasitic, anti-tussive and antiseptic agents.
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Medicinally, they have been used as anti-viral, anti-parasitic, anti-tussive and antiseptic agents.
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Night Nurse is a little cocktail of Paracetomol (a pain killer), Promethazine (a first generation antihistamine known for its sedative side effects and now often used for that purpose, as in Night Nurse presumably to aid sleep), and Dextromethorphan (an anti-tussive: a drug that suppresses cough but which can cause hallucinations and euphoria in excessive doses due to its centrally acting role in the nervous system at a variety of important receptors).
British Blogs 2009
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Cough In November 2007, Verona announced that it had acquired significant know-how for a potential anti-tussive drug.
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