asthmatic

[ az-mat-ik, as- ]

adjective

1. having or experiencing asthma.
2. relating to asthma:

   an asthmatic cough.

3. 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.

noun

1. a person with asthma.

asthmatic

/ æsˈmætɪk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or having asthma

noun

1. a person who has asthma

Usage

Rather than talking about an asthmatic or asthmatics , it is better to talk about a person with asthma , people with asthma

Derived Forms

• asthˈmatically, adverb

Other Words From

• 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of asthmatic¹

First recorded in 1535–45; from Latin asthmaticus, from Greek asthmatikós, equivalent to asthmat- (stem of ásthma ) asthma + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

One of her three sons was asthmatic and had landed in intensive care a few years earlier.

From ProPublica

A 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.

From Washington Post

The 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.

From Washington Post

The 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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

(Police at the scene initially claimed that the asthmatic, 350-pound Garner had suffered a heart attack).

From The Daily Beast

She had earlier offered a terse description of how her asthmatic brother had come to die.

From The Daily Beast

For example, I cannot imagine trying to treat a diabetic patient without insulin, or an asthmatic patient without bronchodilators.

From The Daily Beast

Lifelong asthmatic Moises Velasquez-Manoff infected himself with parasites to improve his health.

From The Daily Beast

Eosinophilic leukocytes are common in gonorrheal pus and in asthmatic sputum.

From Project Gutenberg

Dan waited for him to invoke deity with the asthmatic wheeziness to which mirth reduced his vocal apparatus.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the bane of asthmatic patients, but the gardener makes short work of it.

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Its age and asthmatic condition should have made it an object of veneration to the chauffeur, but such was not the case.

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And he liquidates his obligations to a great deal of asthmatic cough, while the jumping frog does his bidding.

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