The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The EPA said that both times, the state recorded high levels of particulate matter, which can cause heart attacks, asthmas and chronic health conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Oh, ye! who pine, in London smoke immur'd, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncur'd, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatisms, coughs, blue-devils!
From Poetic Sketches by Thomas Gent
It has chiefly been employed in humoural asthmas.
From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by William Salisbury
A strong infusion of the herb is excellent in asthmas, and it may be made with sugar into a syrup which will keep all the year round.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
The student soon learned the physiognomy of disease by going about with his master; fevers, pleurisies, asthmas, dropsies, fluxes, small-pox, sore-throats, measles, consumptions.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
