What's the difference between cough and hough?

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.

Hough


Definition:

  • (n.) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man.
  • (n.) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.
  • (n.) The popliteal space; the ham.
  • (n.) Same as Hock, a joint.
  • (v. t.) Same as Hock, to hamstring.
  • (n.) An adz; a hoe.
  • (v. t.) To cut with a hoe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the 100-day mark approached, Hough said: “I think the support remains.” “The economy improved elsewhere,” she said.
  • (2) Newborns were studied at district hospital, Chinsurah, in Houghly district (West Bengal) from September 1977-August 1978.
  • (3) There have since been several workshops offered by Xomed and Dr. Hough, who developed the device, to train otolaryngologists how to implant this device.
  • (4) Professor Mike Hough, who was in the team that started the Home Office's then British crime survey in the early 1980s, says the fact that both the key yardsticks – the official crime survey and the police statistics – point in the same direction suggests there has been a "real and welcome fall" in crime.
  • (5) The literature thus far is limited to the experience of Hough and others involved with his initial trials.
  • (6) Camra's pubs director, Julian Hough, said the pub's success was hard earned against some tough competition: "The Swan with Two Necks really is the best of the best, having beaten rival pubs at every step, in a process which starts at a local level and takes a full 12 months to complete.
  • (7) A subtle curved line due to pneumothorax is then detected by means of the Hough transform.
  • (8) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
  • (9) If he can’t produce, then he’ll be as bad as Hillary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Melissa Hough, president of the board of trustees of the Slate Belt Heritage Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
  • (10) The algorithm is based on the Hough transformation and can determine the parameters describing an ellipse even in low signal-to-noise ratio images and when the contour is only partially visualized such as in non-perfused regions of the left ventricular myocardium.
  • (11) A) There are 2 types of bone conduction implant: the "Audiant Bone Conduction" system of Hough-Vernon (Xomed), where an outside electromagnetic coil sends signals transcutaneously to a magnetic screw embedded on the temporal bone.
  • (12) Case study Julia Hough, a 39-year-old emergency services call handler in Dorset, was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2002.
  • (13) EGK Red carpet host Ryan Seacrest and actor Julianne Hough arrive at the Golden Globes with matching bouffants.
  • (14) In this paper we present you our clinical experience of 2 cases in which we implanted the Audiant Bone Conductor (by J. Hough).
  • (15) We report a case of an adrenal lipoma, a very rare lesion first described in 1899 and of which a total of six cases have previously been reported (Lange 1966, Page, De Lellis & Hough 1986).
  • (16) This group was tentatively assigned to His 14 on the basis of the results on X-ray crystallographic and chemical modification studies [Hough et al.
  • (17) PopCap Games , whose highly entertaining and child-friendly game Plants vs Zombies was nominated for a Bafta last year, feature "player profiles" on their website, including "Barbara Simpson, 36 – Connecticut mom plays Bejeweled Blitz with a baby on her lap" and "Ann Hough, 48 – Mother, daughter bond over Plants vs Zombies".
  • (18) EGK Actress Julianne Hough arrives at the Golden Globes.
  • (19) The stenotic change was detected on the basis of the reference diameter estimated by Hough transformation.
  • (20) Four of 33 tumors were classified as benign according to the Weiss, van Slooten, or Hough systems (tumor tissue was unavailable for seven patients).