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asthmatic cough

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asthmatic cough
Etymology: Gk, asthma + AS, cohhetan
a wheezing cough accompanied by signs of breathing difficulty.


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2,7) The early symptomatic response to inhaled corticosteroids that often occurs in 'classic asthma' may be delayed in chronic asthmatic cough, similar to the slow improvement in airway hyper-responsiveness seen with inhaled corticosteroids.
When an asthmatic coughs, or breathes in cigarette smoke or irritating fumes, he or she will begin to wheeze--a whistling sound--because the airways are hyperirritable and have constricted.
 
 
 
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