asthmatic
suggestive of the wheezing or whistling sound symptomatic of asthma: We'll be listening for the telltales signs of imminent disaster: the last, asthmatic gasps from our geriatric central heating boiler.
a person with asthma.
Origin of asthmatic
1Other words from asthmatic
- asth·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- an·ti·asth·mat·ic, adjective, noun
- non·asth·mat·ic, adjective, noun
- non·asth·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
- post·asth·mat·ic, adjective
- un·asth·mat·ic, adjective
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How to use asthmatic in a sentence
One of her three sons was asthmatic and had landed in intensive care a few years earlier.
Held Back: Inside a Lost School Year | by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, photography by Cydni Elledge | June 28, 2021 | ProPublicaA volunteer with the Arlington Democrats was shuttling her to the health clinic in Northern Virginia, saving the asthmatic 61-year-old from an expensive taxi bill, and the guilt was getting to be too much.
One voter outreach group used to offer rides to the polls. Now they’re helping people get vaccinated. | Teo Armus | March 26, 2021 | Washington PostThe University of the Virgin Islands 2014 study found that nearly twice as many residents “experienced asthmatic conditions during the past five years” compared with those living outside it, and more than twice as many had chronic bronchitis.
The island where it rained oil | Juliet Eilperin, Darryl Fears, Salwan Georges | March 25, 2021 | Washington PostThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises asthmatics to ask someone else to clean and disinfect surfaces and to stay in another room when cleaners or disinfectants are used and right afterward.
That week, a patient in his 40s came in for a physical — he was high-risk and asthmatic — and his gaiter pushed down when she walked into the exam room.
A rural S.D. community ignored the virus for months. Then people started dying. | Annie Gowen | December 9, 2020 | Washington Post
(Police at the scene initially claimed that the asthmatic, 350-pound Garner had suffered a heart attack).
Eric Garner Was Choked to Death for Selling Loosies | Nick Gillespie | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe had earlier offered a terse description of how her asthmatic brother had come to die.
For example, I cannot imagine trying to treat a diabetic patient without insulin, or an asthmatic patient without bronchodilators.
When Antibiotics Don’t Work, It’s Everyone’s Problem | Russell Saunders | May 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLifelong asthmatic Moises Velasquez-Manoff infected himself with parasites to improve his health.
An Epidemic of Absence: Destroying the Bugs in Our Bodies Can Be Dangerous to Our Health | Moises Velasquez-Manoff | September 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTEosinophilic leukocytes are common in gonorrheal pus and in asthmatic sputum.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddDan waited for him to invoke deity with the asthmatic wheeziness to which mirth reduced his vocal apparatus.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonIt is the bane of asthmatic patients, but the gardener makes short work of it.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsIts age and asthmatic condition should have made it an object of veneration to the chauffeur, but such was not the case.
The Honorable Percival | Alice Hegan RiceAnd he liquidates his obligations to a great deal of asthmatic cough, while the jumping frog does his bidding.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
British Dictionary definitions for asthmatic
/ (æsˈmætɪk) /
of, relating to, or having asthma
a person who has asthma
usage For asthmatic
Derived forms of asthmatic
- asthmatically, adverb
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