Word Finder - cough

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A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary.

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Behind me, I heard a distinct, dry cough.

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A condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough.

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Sorry, I can't come to work today – I've got a nasty cough.

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Used to focus attention on a following utterance, often a euphemism or an attribution of blame

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He was – cough – indisposed.

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To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion.

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I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough.

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(sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing.

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Sometimes she coughed (up) blood.

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To make a noise like a cough.

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The engine coughed and sputtered.

Anna Pavlovna had had a cough for some days.

Her hacking cough had become unproductive, and even breathing was a chore.

Others may not want to cough up the dough.

Such a cough is relieved by the sedative action on the central nervous system.

Various cough mixtures on the market do the trick for different people.

It typically starts suddenly with fever, chills, headache, aching muscles, general prostration and a cough or other respiratory symptoms.

Take a teaspoon at a time for a natural cough remedy.

Patients with Legionnaires ' disease usually have fever, chills, and a cough, which may be dry or may produce sputum.

For example, a person suffering with pneumococcal pneumonia may have chest pain, cough, purulent sputum, and fever.

Cough as quietly as possible To stop a coughing fit swallow saliva and keep swallow saliva and keep swallowing until you inhibit the cough.

The whooping cough vaccine contains thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines.

Despite its worrying tubercular cough, we cooked dinner.

I have a cough and wheezy chest, which I have put down to dust.

He would still wheeze even though he had cough syrup.

The board may have to cough up more dollars to shut the company down properly.

Infants, unlike children over the age of a year, are more prone to ailments such as the common infant cold, cough or tummy bug.

Repetitive cough - this may be mild in nature but something which is not 'normal' for the infant.

If a household member has a cold, cough or tummy bug, then attention to general hygiene practices could help avoid the risk of spreading unwanted germs.

Yes, there's a possibility that he is trying to cough up a hairball.

These masses can be large and hard, sometimes too big to either cough up or pass on through the digestive system.

When humans develop cardiomyopathy, they often display signs of full-blown congestive heart failure which can include a wet foamy cough.

Collection agencies don't have a lot of power to force you to cough up your cash.

One way these fraudsters work is to make fantastic promises of super-low monthly payments, as long as you just cough up a grand or two up-front for their work.

It makes a wonderful natural cough medicine.

Native Americans also used this variety of ginseng as a cough remedy and as a method to ease constipation.

Throat lozenges are sucked on as needed to ease sore throat or cough.

Homeopathic doctors believe that any symptoms, such as headache, nasal congestion or cough, are the body's own attempts to self-heal and that suppressing these symptoms will only drive disease further into the body.

This does not include teenagers who abuse OTC drugs such as cough and cold medicine.

They may cough; have yellowed skin, eyes, or fingers; wrinkle prematurely; have a dulled sense of smell and taste; or have brittle hair.

Cough syrup makers and physicians began using and prescribing it regularly.

Similarly, marijuana use may cause a chronic cough and memory loss in some users, where other users will suffer no ill effect.

You recently took part in the launch of an online campaign to raise awareness about cough medicine abuse.

I am one of five moms involved in a campaign to raise awareness about cough medicine abuse.

It's taking an extreme amount of cough medicine-bottle after bottle or pill after pill-to get high.

The "high" is caused by dextromethorphan, a common ingredient found in many cough medicines.

According to the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, one in 10 teenagers reports intentionally abusing cough medicine to get high.

The best treatment for kennel cough is to let it run its course.

Cough is not an indication to stop an ACE inhibitor unless it is troublesome.

These usually present with a runny nose, cough and temperature, and you may feel achy.

Effects of the albumen or whooping cough vaccine induced arthritis were studied.

You may make a whooping sound when you cough and have trouble breathing.

Complications of whooping cough include bronchopneumonia, acute encephalopathy, and long-term brain damage as a result of cerebral hypoxia.

The most common conditions were hay fever, cold and flu, cough, head lice and vaginal candidiasis.

He still had a cough productive of clear catarrh and left sided chest pains.

Those who were given codeine only needed slightly higher levels of capsaicin than those given the placebo to cause a cough.

The study showed that an ingredient of chocolate called theobromine was more effective at stopping persistent coughs than the leading cough medicine codeine.

A child with mild asthma may have an irritating cough each night, but is often fine during the day.

What about if you sneeze, cough or laugh?

Anyone who has been vaccinated or has suffered from whooping cough will have a degree of immunity to the disease.

Dogs are spayed/castrated, micro-chipped, kennel cough vaccinated, wormed and inoculated before leaving us.