whooping cough
10
3.2
- noun
- /ˈhuːpɪŋ kɔf/
:
tosferina
- The incidences of whooping cough and related deaths in Denmark have decreased dramatically since the introduction of pertussis vaccines.
- symptoms of whooping cough
- whooping cough epidemic
- incidence of whooping cough
When I was two years of age, I guess it started with whooping cough and and pneumonia.
- When I was two years of age, I guess it started with whooping cough and and pneumonia.
- That's why when you're going to have a baby, they make you get the whooping cough vaccine because if babies get it, they will die.
- So meanwhile, Jefferson has two daughters back in Virginia staying with their aunt and uncle and one of them dies of teething and and whooping cough.
- This week I have my whooping cough jab and on Saturday we have our sixteen week booking appointment thingy with the midwife.
- What for whooping cough? You gave him laxatives. Why?
Examples
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We've seen outbreaks of whooping cough in the last ten years like we've never seen before.
Blog text (31) -
In infants and young children, whooping cough (pertussis) can be a serious disease.
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In fact, the majority of whooping cough cases are in teens and adults.
Blog text (15) -
It's my child, he's been ill with whooping cough.
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The number of confirmed cases of whooping cough grows in the Flathead Valley.
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Proper hygiene and isolation are the most successful methods for keeping whooping cough from spreading.
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Children who haven't been fully immunized are the most vulnerable to whooping cough, also known as pertussis.
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Federal health officials are concerned about what they say is an epidemic of whooping cough in California.
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Current medical practice is to vaccinate babies against whooping cough beginning at two months of age.
Synonyms
10
7.2
A very contagious disease of the lungs and throat that causes severe coughing fits
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term is compositionally built: 'whooping' (making a whoop sound) modifying 'cough' yields a cough characterized by a whoop during inhalation. This descriptive, non-idiomatic naming is directly inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents and mirrors common cross-linguistic descriptive patterns.
Etymology
Whooping cough comes from the loud 'whoop' sound people make when they breathe in after a bad coughing fit. The words whooping, meaning the whoop sound, and cough, meaning the coughing attack, explain the name, so it means 'a disease with strong coughing fits and a loud whoop when breathing in'.