SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing

Synonyms:

croup; spasmodic laryngitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("spasmodic laryngitis" is a kind of...):

angina (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)

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