asthmatic
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5.2
- adjective
- /æθˈmætɪk/
:
asmático
- And the airways in your lungs are like branches, and when the branches close up, you get an asthmatic attack, and we give you medicine, and you get better.
- asthmatic reaction
- asthmatic children
- asthmatic attack
He was, he needed, he was asthmatic, extremely asthmatic.
- He was, he needed, he was asthmatic, extremely asthmatic.
Examples
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You can't smoke in a house with an asthmatic child.
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A homeless girl, asthmatic, 18 years old.
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And here we'll be looking at what might be causing an asthmatic response.
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This young woman is asthmatic.
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You don't happen to be an asthmatic, by any chance?
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Carla and Melissa were both asthmatic.
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When we were quiet like this, I could hear each person breathing: Sam in his wheezy asthmatic spurts;
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm asthmatic.
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Socioeconomic factors have been associated with the frequency of asthmatic attacks (Boudreaux et al., 2003).
Academic text (2006) -
The child had to use an inhaler because he was asthmatic and struggled to breathe during exercise.
Synonyms
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6.5
Making a high, whistling sound when breathing because the throat or chest is partly blocked
A high whistling or rough sound that you make when breathing is hard
How Wheezy
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6.5
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5.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Asthmatic comes from the Greek word asthma, meaning 'shortness of breath', so calling breathing or a sound 'asthmatic' means it is a wheeze or noisy, difficult breathing.