asthma

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And my daughter has asthma which is considered one of the high risk groups, and these are the people the government said needed the shot.

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  1. noun A chronic respiratory disease, often arising from allergies, that is characterized by sudden recurring attacks of labored breathing, chest constriction, and coughing.

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  • KING: Except for the asthma, are you OK in every other regard, heart and everything? —  CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Curing What Ails You in the New Millennium - January 4, 2000
  • And my daughter has asthma which is considered one of the high risk groups, and these are the people the government said needed the shot. —  CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009
  • They do not contain chemicals that can trigger asthma, and in fact they say our products can help fight asthma, because they clean up things like dust mites that trigger asthma -- Kiran. —  CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2007
  • I am told he has an asthma, which is a disease I commiserate more than deafness, because it will not leave a man quiet either sleeping or waking.” [ —  Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
  • - —  Sharpe's Devil
 

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  1. Middle English asma, from Medieval Latin, from Greek asthma.

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  1. Early modern English also astma, asma, from Middle English asma, asmy, from Middle Latin asma, asthma, from Greek ἄσθμα, asthma, panting, from ἄζειν, also ἀάζειν, αἰάζειν, breathe hard, pant, from ἀη̄ναι (*Fαῆναι), breathe, blow,= Gothic (Moesogothic) waian = Anglo-Saxon wāwan = Old High German wājan, Middle High German wæjen, German wehen = Sanskrit √ υᾱ, blow. From the same root, in Greek, come air, aura, aula, atmo-, etc., and in Teutonic, wind, q. v.
 

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