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Pertussis

//pəˈtʌsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Whooping cough. countable, uncountable

    "With the introduction of an improved and standardized pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there followed a remarkable decline in pertussis in the United States, most of the Western world, and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan."

  2. 2
    a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane wordnet

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin per- (“thorough”) + tussis (“cough”).

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