croupnoun [ U ]
uk/kruːp/us/kruːp/a children's illness in which a child has noisy, difficult breathing and coughs a lot
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Respiratory disorders
- altitude sickness
- apnoea
- asbestosis
- bird flu
- black lung disease
- bronchitis
- bunged up
- central sleep apnoea
- cystic fibrosis
- hyperventilation
- pharyngitis
- pleurisy
- pneumothorax
- pulmonary fibrosis
- pulmonary hypertension
- rhinitis
- SARS
- shortness of breath
- wheeze
- whooping cough
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Examples from literature
- He lay patiently fighting for breath, like a child with croup.
- In croup there is pain and difficulty in swallowing, fever and cough, which are usually absent in asthma.
- Symptoms. True croup is generally preceded by what is known as "a cold."
- There was a sudden alarm one night, when her little namesake was found strangling with the croup.
- They had come from a part of the interior where the disease called croup occasionally prevails.