catarrhnoun [ U ]
uk/kəˈtɑːr/us/kəˈtɑːr/a condition in which a lot of mucus is produced in the nose and throat, especially when a person has an infection, or the mucus produced
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Colds & flu
- avian flu
- bunged up
- chesty
- chill
- cold
- congested
- cough
- coughing fit
- flu
- frog
- have a frog in your throat idiom
- head cold
- runny
- sniff
- sniffle
- snuffle
- stuffed up
- swine flu
- the common cold
- tickle
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Examples from literature
- I believe that no one need suffer long with chronic catarrh who is within reach of this remedy.
- I can say honestly and candidly that it is the grandest medicine ever compounded for catarrh.
- I have had no return of catarrh and enjoy good health.
- Thus any excessive secretion, as of bronchitis or catarrh, is carried upwards, and finally expelled by coughing.
- To-day my health is good and I have no catarrh.