单词 | pertussis |
释义 | pertussisn. Medicine. Whooping cough, which is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > whooping cough kinkhost?c1190 chincougha1400 kinkcoughc1450 whooping cough1657 coqueluche1706 pertussis1774 1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 (table following p. 76) Morborum Genera... Classis II. Neuroses... G. 53. Pertussis. 1795 J. Watt Let. 2 Apr. in E. Robinson & D. McKie Partners in Sci. (1970) 213 Mr. Henry..has also cured two cases of pertussis by the same air. 1823 Lancet 12 Oct. 62/1 Pertussis, or Hooping-cough. This is a convulsive cough interrupted by a full and sonorous inspiration. 1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 223 Spasmodic coughs, as pertussis and asthma. 1890 Science 28 Mar. 201/1 Professor Afanasleff read an able and exhaustive bacteriological essay on the subject of pertussis. 1930 Science 15 Aug. (Suppl.) 14/1 The pertussis bacillus which causes the whoop can be detected by cough plates or disks which are held three or four inches from the patient's mouth during a coughing spell. 1968 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 7 Dec. 1070/1 She had received a ‘full’ immunization course of diphtheria, poliomyelitis, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. 1993 A. Hardy Epidemic Streets i. 13 Whooping-cough (which is often known as pertussis) has an incubation period of seven-to-ten days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1774 |
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