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WHOOPING-COUGH

Date "WHOOPING-COUGH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Specialty Definition: WHOOPING-COUGH

DomainDefinition

Medicine

An acute infectious disease characterised by coughing spasms that end with a shrill crowing sound on inspiration. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: WHOOPING-COUGH

Language Translations for "WHOOPING-COUGH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

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

   

Dutch

  

tussis quinta (pertussis), tussis convulsiva (pertussis), pertussis (pertussis), kinkhoest (pertussis, whooping cough). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hinkuyskä. (various references)

   

French

  

coqueluche (whoop, whooping cough). (various references)

   

German

  

Wolfshusten (pertussis), Tussis convulsiva (pertussis), Stickhusten (hooping cough), Pertussis (pertussis), Keuchhusten (whooping cough, whoopingcough), Eselshusten (pertussis), Blauhusten (pertussis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοκκύτης (pertussis). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

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

   

Italian

  

tosse canina (whooping cough, whoopingcough), tosse asinina (pertussis), pertosse (pertussis, whooping cough). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ooping-coughwhay

   

Portuguese

  

tosse convulsa (pertussis, whooping cough), coqueluche (chin-cough, faddiness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Spanish

  

tos ferina (croup, whooping cough), pertussis (pertussis), coqueluche (pertussis). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation 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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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