He had a coughing fit for a number of minutes.
After a while he began to get a little better, but he had a bad coughing fit and died.
However, when not in a coughing fit, the patient does not experience trouble breathing.
This prevents the cilia from clearing debris from the lungs, so the body responds by sending the host into a coughing fit.
Coughing fits, rustling candy wrappers - auditory interference which can bedevil any theatrical experience - are, in-the-round, aggravated by visual 'noise'.
He drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits.
He would have coughing fits up on stage.
They had also noticed symptoms of sporadic coughing fits and before its death had seen that the potoroo had actually gone into a state of hypothermia.
