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whooping cough

whooping cough

 
pronunciation:
hu pIng kawf [or] hU pIng kawf
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part of speech: noun
definition: an acute infectious respiratory disease particularly serious in children, marked by intense spasms of coughing and sometimes accompanied by a high-pitched sound as air in inhaled; pertussis.
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  breathe, disease, respiration