asthma attack
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈæsmə əˈtæk/
:
ataque de asma
- When people with asthma are exposed to these triggers, an asthma attack or exacerbation can occur.
- acute asthma attack
- severe asthma attack
- suffer from asthma attacks
And for my brother, that was that was bad because I had an asthma attack.
- And for my brother, that was that was bad because I had an asthma attack.
- Growing up, I got rushed to the hospital a lot and with asthma attacks.
- So they, they wanted to do an ad saying Mustangs are bad because they're making us, you know, they're making us have asthma attacks and they and they, the network didn't want to do it.
Examples
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If left untreated, asthma attacks can be life-threatening.
Academic text (2015) -
But you can die of an asthma attack brought on by it.
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My son had an asthma attack.
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I was having an asthma attack.
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Danny had an asthma attack, and Jack took him to the hospital.
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Within a few days, however, she suffers a major asthma attack and has to be admitted to hospital.
Academic text (2016) -
She panicked during the asthma attack, struggling to breathe as the symptoms intensified.
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His asthma attack was triggered by the smoke from the barbecue, leaving him gasping for air.
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After playing outside in the cold, she experienced an asthma attack which required her to use her inhaler.
Synonyms
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4.1
A sudden time when bad symptoms appear
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sudden episode of severe asthma symptoms' is directly and compositionally derived from 'asthma' (the respiratory condition) + 'attack' (a sudden bout or seizure of symptoms). This medical collocation is cross-linguistically common (e.g., French 'crise d'asthme', Spanish 'ataque de asma'), so learners who know both words would readily infer the phrase.
Etymology
Asthma attack is a simple name that shows the image behind it: asthma describes hard, noisy breathing and an attack is a sudden time when this happens. So the phrase means 'a sudden episode of severe breathing trouble'.