What's the difference between cough and troat?

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.

Troat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry, as a buck in rutting time.
  • (n.) The cry of a buck in rutting time.

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