(interj.) An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's easy to have a tongue in (ahem) cheek approach to looking at this needlework, but the fascinated and often aggressive reactions to Cole's choice say a lot about contemporary society, celebrity and ideas of femininity.
(2) 8.17pm GMT About the day that Tavon Austin is having Ahem.
(3) Updated at 9.03am BST 8.47am BST The euro crisis in (bad) pictures On a lighter note...there's a bit of interest on Twitter this morning about a photo gallery created by Germany's Spiegel last week of some of the worst images used by (ahem) the media to illustrate the eurozone crisis.
(4) Full disclosure (ahem): Vrulja Cove is also a haven for toplessness, and sometimes bottomlessness.
(5) By midday Thursday, the #FirstTweet hashtag was showcasing the (ahem) skeptical , mundane or apparently completely accidental first messages of thousands.
(6) I’ve got the German commentary (ahem) whilst watching tonight,” intones Dan Dane.
(7) And amazingly, unlike so many of my peers, I hadn't been seduced into PR or (ahem) banking.
(8) Aha, ahem, said the director of research, Professor Luis Garicano.
(9) Here are five that couldn’t possibly ... ahem ... go wrong.
(10) The, ahem, Jester from Leicester (it's no Sheriff of Pottingham) did pretty well to get out of last night's second session with a three-frame deficit and keep himself well in this match, but O'Sullivan is looking pretty close to his brilliant best.
(11) The recession is E.ON's stated reason for, ahem, pulling the plug on its electric ambitions.
(12) 3 Putin's recent facelift has not been a success Speculation started last year that Putin had had some – ahem – work done in preparation for his return to the presidency .
(13) And stay for the kicker: Reports that congressmen have been drinking during these, ahem, "deliberations" have gotten a lot of criticism and a lot of attention.
(14) The official apologised, adding: "Carry on, madam ... Ahem, sir."
(15) Does the BBC really want to break all that up just to pay more to the (ahem) national treasure that is Chris Moyles?
(16) 2.17am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 3rd Xander Ha- ahem Xander Bogaerts starts of the inning for the Sox.
(17) But the series follows the plan laid out by the Bible pretty – ahem – religiously, with the second coming of Christ giving those left behind one last chance to get their act together before the final showdown between God and the devil.
(18) 3.32am GMT Florida State 10-21 Auburn, 15:00 3rd quarter And the start of the, ahem, "third half".
(19) Of course you and I and most of those convicted of non-violent offences could have been tagged from day one, but our judges, politicians, the Crown Prosecution Service and, ahem, our tabloid editors have an almost religious belief that throwing as many people into prison as possible is good for Britain.
(20) She developed her craft on the spoken-word scene, determinedly converting new fans and taking festival tents by, ahem, storm.
Cough
Definition:
(v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.
(v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.
(v. t.) To bring to a specified state by coughing; as, he coughed himself hoarse.
(v. i.) A sudden, noisy, and violent expulsion of air from the chest, caused by irritation in the air passages, or by the reflex action of nervous or gastric disorder, etc.
(v. i.) The more or less frequent repetition of coughing, constituting a symptom of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(2) After controlling for FEV1, cough was still significantly associated with treatment for airway disease in general and both cough, mucus hypersecretion and chronic bronchitis were significantly associated with treatment for airway obstruction.
(3) The drug proved to be of high value in alleviating nocturnal coughing controlling spastic bronchitis in children, as a pretreatment before bronchological examinations and their anaesthesia.
(4) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
(5) Both hypersensitivity of the cough reflex and the symptom of cough are reversed by sulindac which suggests that the abnormal reflex is dependent on cyclo-oxygenase products.
(6) The responses were scored hourly up to 4 hours after the administration of single doses in the morning to subjects with persistent cough.
(7) I really want people to know that pregnancy vaccination means we now have the power to minimise – if not completely stop – deaths from whooping cough,” she said.
(8) The inability of these young smokers to enhance their mucus clearance by cough suggests a change in the mucociliary apparatus from normal.
(9) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
(10) Patients were selected if they demonstrated no apparent underlying cause for their persistent cough after appropriate radiological and respiratory function tests including methacholine reactivity and bronchoscopic examination.
(11) During captopril treatment one patient complained of a non-productive cough.
(12) Malaise, fatigability, low-grade fever, aching chest pain and mild cough lasting a few days to a few weeks are usual.
(13) These dyspnea complaints often presented themselves as isolated symptoms, without chronic cough or phlegm production.
(14) These findings suggest that muscarinic receptor stimulation, bronchoconstriction, beta 2 receptor stimulation, or bronchodilation might have no direct effect on the sensitivity of the cough receptors in normal subjects.
(15) In the treatment of 31 cases of acute infections of pediatric field including upper and lower airway infections, empyema, whooping cough, acute urinary tract infections and phlegmon, CMNX was administered intravenously either as one shot injection as drip infusion.
(16) Among men, a large group complained of chronic cough.
(17) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
(18) To determine the role of the clavicular portion of the pectoralis major during cough in tetraplegic subjects.
(19) The effect of the drugs on respiratory resistance (Rrs), measured using a forced oscillation technique, was measured both before and after the inhalation of a dose of capsaicin which caused less than two coughs.
(20) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.