Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A cough.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In medicine, a cough. Compare pertussis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A cough.
Etymologies
- Latin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_Calculus_ and _tussis_ (l. 88) are diseases, the stone and bronchitis, that attacked him.”
“_ Periodic cough, called nervous cough, and tussis serina.”
“Loquat Syrup: an expectorant for the treatment of tussis and bronchitis;”
“_tussis ago_, "I drive away a cold"; and _farfar_, the white poplar tree, which has a similar leaf.”
“I have been favoured by Miss Lawrence with one of these letters as a specimen: ” 'T. LAWRENCIO, Medico, S.' NOVUM frigus, nova tussis, nova spirandi difficultas, novam sanguinis missionem suadent, quam tamen te inconsulto nolim fieri.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tussis’.
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Zamboni Palin
My imaginary lexicon for future megastar and visionary Zamboni Palin.
strewth, curple, speshly, ugly tree, whupping, nar'n, swain, sneezeweed, sciencey, snarleyyow, jackpudding, squanch and 304 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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words
diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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Seriously? No, not really.
Serious-sounding "conditions" which are perfectly normal.
deglutition, sternutation, pandiculation, tussis, borborygmus, lacrimation, singultus, stertor, eructation, flatus, sudation, pruritus and 25 more...
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Grandiloquence
Big, 'fancy' synonyms for simple concepts. Often scientific or medical terms
sternutation, susurration, flatulence, eructation, ephelides, borborygmus, titubate, terpsichorean, tachyphagia, tachyphrasia, sudorous, stupration and 60 more...
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Meesh's list
psithurism, pejorative, apricity, tittle, glabella, obdormition, harp, sussurus, sussuration, suspirate, suspiration, eructation and 65 more...
Tweets
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reesetee A cough. Dec 12, 2008