Whooping Cough

  

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Whooping Cough

Definition: Whooping Cough

Whooping Cough

Noun

1. A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Whooping Cough

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Health

A respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis and characterized by paroxysmal coughing ending in a prolonged crowing intake of breath. (references)
 An acute infectious disease characterized by coughing spasms that end with a shrill crowing sound on inspiration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Whooping Cough

Synonym: pertussis (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Whooping Cough

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Whooping Cough

English words defined with "whooping cough": Chin coughHooping coughKinkhaust. (references)
Specialty definitions using "whooping cough": Bordetella pertussisDiphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine, DPT immunisation, DPT immunizationPertussis Toxins. (references)

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Modern Usage: Whooping Cough

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Movie/TV Titles

Tommy and the Whooping Cough (1912)

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Commercial Usage: Whooping Cough

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Books

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Photo Album: Whooping Cough

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When coupled with malnutrition ... whooping cough is still one of the killer diseases. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by L. Matlovski..

While You Make Up Your Mind About Whooping Cough Vaccination, Thousands Of Children Are Holding Their Breath : There's An Epidemic. Get Your Child Vaccinated Now. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Whooping Cough Is Back!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A.H. Woods presents Valeska Suratt in the swift, smart & saucy play, The girl with the whooping cough the latest Paris sensation : by Stanislaus Stange. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Whooping Cough

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Health

Experiments with a component of pertussis toxin (a toxin from the bacteria that causes whooping cough) suggest that this might be possible. (references)

Diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus immunizations (DPT or DT shots) are not "live" and are considered by some to be safe for those being treated for cancer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Whooping Cough

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John F. Kennedy

1961-1963To take advantage of modern vaccination achievements, I am proposing a mass immunization program, aimed at the virtual elimination of such ancient enemies of our children as polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Whooping Cough

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

whooping cough

345

whooping cough picture

4

adult whooping cough

4

whooping cough in adult

3

the history of whooping cough

2
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Modern Translation: Whooping Cough

Language Translations for "whooping cough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kollë e mirë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سعال ديكي, ‏شهقة سعال ديكي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

магарешка кашлица (hooping cough). (various references)

   

Czech

  

èerný kašel (hooping cough). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kighoste (paroxysmal cough, pertussis, whooping-cough). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kinkhoest (pertussis, whooping-cough). (various references)

   

French

  

coqueluche (whoop). (various references)

   

German

  

Keuchhusten (whoopingcough). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοκκύτησ, κοκίτησ (croup). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szamárköhögés (hooping cough, whooping-cough). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pertosse (pertussis). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

百日' . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ひゃくにちぜき. (various references)

   

Manx

  

truh (chin cough, whoop), mughane cassee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopingwhay oughcay

   

Portuguese

  

coqueluche (chin-cough, faddiness). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tuse convulsivã (pertussis, whoop). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

коклюш (hooping cough, hooping-cough, pertussis, whooping-cough). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

veliki kašalj. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tos ferina (croup). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kikhosta (pertussis, whooping-cough, whoppingcough). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

boğmaca öksürüğü (hooping cough, pertussis). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gцtsbogma. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

коклюш. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Whooping Cough

Misspellings

"Whooping Cough" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: whooping caugh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Whooping Cough

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-g-h-h-i-n-o-o-o-p-u-w"

-5 letters: coughing, pooching, pouching, whooping.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Quotations: Speeches
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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