what is the definition of cough?

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cough Definition In English

0 to force air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound:
- The car engine coughed a few times, but wouldn't start.
- I coughed all night long.
- The smoke made me cough.
1 the act of coughing, or the sound this makes:
- Emily has a very bad/nasty cough.
- a smoker's cough
- a hacking (= very bad and loud) cough
- a dry cough (= one that does not produce mucus)
2 to force air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound, often unwillingly:
- fig. The car engine coughed a few times, but wouldn’t start.
- The smoke from the bonfire made me cough.
3 an act of forcing air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound, often unwillingly:
- There are lots of coughs and colds going around this winter.
- a dry cough

In comparison to airborne transmission symptoms such as sore throat, pharyngeal erythema, and enlarged tonsils, submandibular lymphadenopathy are more frequent than coughing and coryza.
The study included patients with one of two conditions: (1) abdominal pain and (2) cough and/or sore throat.
Now the smoker cannot hope to ignore me; or, at least, ignoring me will mean not just ignoring my cough.
An initial assessment is made of sensory and motor function of the swallowing mechanisms, airways protection, phonation, volitional cough and the cough reflex.
As for labour, avoidance of a high block for surgery is also beneficial to enable the patient to cough and clear secretions.
Asthmatics with coughs, colds or throat symptoms requiring steroid treatment.
Apart from an intermittent cough and recent onset of breathlessness, he had been otherwise well and thriving from birth.
The overall mean duration of coughing symptoms was 13 days, and 32 individuals (28 %) met the clinical case definition for pertussis.