catarrhal
Americanadjective
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The catarrhal stage, characterized by runny mucous, is highly contagious.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2013
Spuming his lines with catarrhal intakes of breath punctuating the bolts of rhetoric, Branagh is a whiz at making the poetry colloquial and intelligible; he spits out the 400-year-old verse like a rapmaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the past summer when constant rains made the homes of our nursery group very damp, and many children who did not receive our care suffered from catarrhal colds, our children kept perfectly well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
In pharyngeal and nasal diphtheria the narrow orifice of the Eustachian tube is easily obstructed by either catarrhal swelling or diphtheritic deposit.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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