Definition of Pertusses

1. Noun. (plural of pertussis) ¹

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Definition of Pertusses

1. pertussis [n] - See also: pertussis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertusses

perturbators
perturbatour
perturbatours
perturbed
perturber
perturbers
perturbing
perturbingly
perturbs
pertusate
pertuse
pertused
pertusion
pertusions
pertussal
pertusses
pertussis
pertussis-like syndrome
pertussis immune globulin
pertussis immunoglobulin
pertussis syndrome
pertussis toxin
pertussis toxins
pertussis vaccine
pertussises
pertuzumab
peruke
peruked
perukes
perula

Literary usage of Pertusses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1879)
"The digestion and the general health in uncomplicated pertusses remain unimpaired, with the exception of more or less emaciation, which is apt to ..."

2. American Medical Journal (1891)
"... eclectics: "The 'physio-medic' asked, 'What \s pertusses / ' and also the very comprehensive question, 'What does delayed dentition prognosticate? ..."

3. Method of Memorizing the Materia Medica by Andrew Leight Monroe (1882)
"... Pertusses, is pale, but with cough, blue and stiff; A nd Headaches and Spasms 't will aid it is said, ..."

4. Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture by Indiana State Board of Agriculture (1882)
"Take a case of pertusses or whooping- cough, which is found to be caused by a microscopic fungus, locating itself in the mouth by the side of the tongue, ..."

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