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SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
Synonyms:
croup; spasmodic laryngitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("spasmodic laryngitis" is a kind of...):
angina (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)