tussis
[tuhs-is]
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noun Pathology.
a cough.
Origin of tussis
< Latin: a cough
Tussi
[too-see]
noun, plural Tus·sis, (especially collectively) Tus·si.
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Name from tussis, a cough, for which the plant is a reputed remedy.
The plant has its Latin name from tussis, a cough, and for many centuries has been used in pulmonary complaints.
Plant Lore, Legends, and LyricsRichard Folkard
So the periods of Tussis ferina, or violent cough with slow pulse, called nervous cough, recurs by solar periods.
Zoonomia, Vol. IErasmus Darwin
Calculus and tussis (l. 88) are diseases, the stone and bronchitis, that attacked him.
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert BrowningRobert Browning
In pectore sunt flatus & tussis ut in aere uenti & tonitrua.
tussis
noun
Word Origin for tussis
Latin: cough
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tussis
[tŭs′ĭs]
n. pl. tus•ses (-sēz)
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