catarrhal
Americanadjective
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The catarrhal stage, characterized by runny mucous, is highly contagious.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2013
Difficulty of hearing, probably due to an extension of catarrhal inflammation from the throat into the eustachian tube.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Chest-pains, stitches in the side, frequent sneezing, loss of the sense of smell and of taste, attend the development of the general catarrhal manifestations.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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