Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any agent or medicine capable of preventing or relieving asthmatic attacks, as stramonium, chloroform, etc.
- Pertaining to asthma: as, asthmatic symptoms. Affected by asthma: as, an asthmatic patient.
- noun A person troubled with asthma.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to asthma; ; liable to, or suffering from, asthma.
- noun A person affected with asthma.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the characteristics of
asthma , as in an "asthmatic cough" - noun A
person whosuffers fromasthma
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person suffering from asthma
- adjective relating to breathing with a whistling sound
Etymologies
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Examples
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Safe administration of influenza vaccine in asthmatic children hypersensitive to egg proteins.
Egg Allergies 2008
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He has had a few episodes where we needed to use the nebulizer but he isnt classified as asthmatic YET.
WordPress.com News sraikh 2008
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There was no sign of intoxication, but something was evidently working in the man's mind, and his breath came quickly, with a kind of asthmatic pant, from between his thin lips, still parted in the uncanny grin.
The Unclassed George Gissing 1880
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"And if they think they're suffering from any kind of asthmatic exacerbation, they need to see their doctor and aggressive treatments sooner rather than later."
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Laurence Page stood on a street corner, trying to help police figure a way to reach and carry to safety his asthmatic elderly grandmother without endangering themselves.
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I lost weight, pollen didn't seem to bother me and I stopped using my asthma inhaler (induced by environment, I wasn't born asthmatic).
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One can only conjecture about the discomfort and indignity that Sharp, an asthmatic vegan, suffered in his quest, tramping up muddy tracks in the Appalachian mountains, where one community tried to convince him chicken was a vegetable.
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I lost weight, pollen didn't seem to bother me and I stopped using my asthma inhaler (induced by environment, I wasn't born asthmatic).
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I read day and night, like an asthmatic gasping for breath.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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In the latter part of 1998, CAPP began its Home Visitor Program in order to address the home environment of the asthmatic child.
CAPP history 2010
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