Whooping Cough

Definition: Whooping Cough

Whooping Cough

Noun

1. A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane.

Domain	Definition
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)
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Synonym: Whooping Cough

Synonym: pertussis (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms 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.

Crosswords: Whooping Cough

English words defined with "whooping cough": Chin cough ♦ Hooping cough ♦ Kinkhaust. (references)

Specialty definitions using "whooping cough": Bordetella pertussis ♦ Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine, DPT immunisation, DPT immunization ♦ Pertussis Toxins. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Tommy and the Whooping Cough (1912)
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Domain	Title
Books	Whooping Cough (It's Catching) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	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.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
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.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	To 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.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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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.

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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	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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Expression	Frequency 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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Whooping Cough

Definition: Whooping Cough

Whooping Cough

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Specialty Definition: Whooping Cough

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Synonym: Whooping Cough

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