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Respiratory Tract Diseases > Respiration Disorders > Cough
Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms > Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory > Cough

Preferred term

Cough  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • /drug ther: consider also ANTITUSSIVE AGENTS

Scope note

  • A sudden, audible expulsion of air from the lungs through a partially closed glottis, preceded by inhalation. It is a protective response that serves to clear the trachea, bronchi, and/or lungs of irritants and secretions, or to prevent aspiration of foreign materials into the lungs.

In other languages

  • yskä

    Finnish

  • pitkittynyt yskä
  • tussis
  • tussis prolongatum
  • Hosta

    Swedish

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003371

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