dry cough (redirected from dry coughs)

cough (kof)

1. sudden noisy expulsion of air from lungs.

2. to produce such an expulsion.

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dry cough  cough without expectoration.

hacking cough  a short, frequent, shallow and feeble cough.

productive cough  cough with expectoration of material from the bronchi.

reflex cough  cough due to irritation of some remote organ.

wet cough  productive c.

whooping cough  pertussis.

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dry cough

n.

A cough not accompanied by expectoration; a nonproductive cough.

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dry cough,

a cough that does not produce sputum.

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cough

1. a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs.

2. to produce such an expulsion of air.

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dry cough

cough without expectoration.

goose honk cough

a chronic, harsh, dry cough characteristic of collapsed trachea.

nocturnal cough

in dogs associated with heart disease, psychogenic coughing or collapsed trachea.

productive cough

cough attended with expectoration of material from the bronchi.

psychogenic cough

dogs sometimes associate coughing with the attention received and develop it as a habit.

cough reflex

1. the sequence of events initiated by the sensitivity of the lining of the passageways of the lung and mediated by the medulla as a consequence of impulses transmitted by the vagus nerve, resulting in coughing, i.e. the clearing of the passageways of foreign matter.

2. the response elicited by applying pressure on a trachea. Increased with inflammation of the respiratory epithelium; decreased by cough suppressants and pain.