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tussis

[ tuhs-is ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a cough.


tussis

/ ˈtʌsɪs /

noun

  1. the technical name for cough See pertussis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtussal, adjective
  • ˈtussive, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tussis1

< Latin: a cough
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tussis1

Latin: cough
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Example Sentences

This is perhaps the only special reference to tussis as epidemic until the influenzas of the seventeenth century.

The earliest references to it are in the medieval Latin chronicles under the name of tussis or cough, or in some periphrasis.

Deeper he bent over his books, racked by the stone (calculus): bronchitis (tussis) attacked him; but still he refused to rest.

But his body grew heavy with the increasing ills of extreme age, and the hard breathing of tussis.

Name from tussis, a cough, for which the plant is a reputed remedy.

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