'Whooping cough' definitions:
Definition of 'whooping cough'
From: WordNet
noun
A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane [syn: whooping cough, pertussis]
Definition of 'Whooping cough'
From: GCIDE
- Whooping \Whoop"ing\, a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. [1913 Webster]
- Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. --Dunglison.
- Whooping crane (Zool.), a North American crane ({Crus Americana}) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters.
- Whooping swan (Zool.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'whooping cough'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute articular rheumatism,
- acute bronchitis,
- adenoiditis,
- African lethargy,
- ague,
- alkali disease,
- aluminosis,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- amygdalitis,
- anthracosilicosis,
- anthracosis,
- anthrax,
- asbestosis,
- Asiatic cholera,
- Asiatic flu,
- asthma,
- atypical pneumonia,
- bacillary dysentery,
- bastard measles,
- bituminosis,
- black death,
- black fever,
- black lung,
- blackwater fever,
- breakbone fever,
- bronchial pneumonia,
- bronchiectasis,
- bronchiolitis,
- bronchitis,
- bronchopneumonia,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- cachectic fever,
- catarrh,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- Chagres fever,
- chalicosis,
- chicken pox,
- cholera,
- chronic bronchitis,
- cold,
- collapsed lung,
- common cold,
- coniosis,
- coryza,
- cowpox,
- croup,
- croupous pneumonia,
- dandy fever,
- deer fly fever,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- diphtheria,
- double pneumonia,
- dry pleurisy,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- elephantiasis,
- emphysema,
- empyema,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- epidemic pleurodynia,
- erysipelas,
- famine fever,
- fibrinous pneumonia,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- frambesia,
- German measles,
- glandular fever,
- grippe,
- hansenosis,
- Haverhill fever,
- hay fever,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- histoplasmosis,
- Hong Kong flu,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- jail fever,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- la grippe,
- laryngitis,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- lipoid pneumonia,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lobar pneumonia,
- lockjaw,
- lung cancer,
- lung fever,
- madness,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- meningitis,
- milzbrand,
- mumps,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- pertussis,
- pharyngitis,
- pleurisy,
- pleuritis,
- pneumococcal pneumonia,
- pneumoconiosis,
- pneumonia,
- pneumonic fever,
- pneumothorax,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- psittacosis,
- quinsy,
- rabbit fever,
- rabies,
- rat-bite fever,
- relapsing fever,
- rheum,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- ringworm,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- septic sore throat,
- shingles,
- siderosis,
- silicosis,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- sore throat,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- strep throat,
- swamp fever,
- swine flu,
- tetanus,
- the sniffles,
- the snuffles,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- tonsilitis,
- trench fever,
- trench mouth,
- tuberculosis,
- tularemia,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- undulant fever,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- viral dysentery,
- virus pneumonia,
- wet pleurisy,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zona,
- zoster