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asthmatic

asthmatic

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A person who often has trouble breathing because of asthma
  • noun
  • /æzˈmætɪk/
translation icon : asmático
  • As an asthmatic, she learned to avoid triggers like dust and pollen.

His son is an asthmatic and I want to play this call gang.

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Examples

  • And he was an asthmatic who lived the last third of his life in a cork roomed, cork roomed cork lined room in Paris.

  • An asthmatic with a head cold could smell it from here.

  • I had known him as an asthmatic who spent most of his time in bed.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Plus, as a lifelong asthmatic, I know that the ER is not a place for ongoing treatment.

    Blog text (13)
  • The Department of Justice noted that this isolation was "the mental equivalent of putting an asthmatic in a place with little air to breathe."

    Academic text (1997)
  • That's why different infections can colonize more frequently the asthmatic's airways.

    Academic text (2007)
  • An asthmatic who was unable to continue a career in the church due to respiratory illness, Antonio Vivaldi seems to have clung to a philosophy of composing as much beautiful music as possible during his lifetime.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Every asthmatic should carry an inhaler to manage their symptoms during an attack.

  • Doctors advise that each asthmatic have a personalized action plan for asthma management.

Surface Forms

asthmatic singular
asthmatics plural

Morphology

asthmatic = asthma (transparent) = asthma + tic

Formed by adding the productive adjectival suffix '-tic' to 'asthma', so the relation 'relating to asthma' is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Asthmatic comes from the old Greek word asthma, which means 'shortness of breath'. So an asthmatic is a person who has trouble breathing and may need medicine or an inhaler.