COUGHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coughing mean? 

• COUGHING (noun)
  The noun COUGHING has 1 sense:

1. a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis

  Familiarity information: COUGHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUGHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cough; coughing

Hypernyms ("coughing" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Holonyms ("coughing" is a part of...):

respiratory disease; respiratory disorder; respiratory illness (a disease affecting the respiratory system)

Derivation:

cough (exhale abruptly, as when one has a chest cold or congestion)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include fever, chills, coughing, sore throat headache, muscle ache, and generalized weakness.

(H1N1 Influenza, NCI Thesaurus)

Later symptoms include coughing and shortness of breath.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

A question about whether an individual is or has been coughing.

(Have Been Coughing, NCI Thesaurus)

Coughing or spitting up blood from the respiratory tract.

(Hemoptysis, NCI Dictionary)

Dextrometorphan, a synthetic, methylated dextrorotary analogue of levorphanol, exhibits antitussive activity by activating opioid receptors in the cough center in the central nervous system, thereby raising the threshold for coughing.

(Guaifenesin-DM, NCI Thesaurus)

To clear material from the throat or lungs by coughing it up and spitting it out.

(Expectorate, NCI Thesaurus)

Coronaviruses probably spread through the air by coughing or sneezing, or by close personal contact.

(Coronavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

A question about an individual's coughing at its worst.

(Coughing at its Worst, NCI Thesaurus)

Dextromethorphan, one of the active ingredients, exerts its activity by raising the threshold for coughing in the cough center.

(Dayquil, NCI Thesaurus)

A set of pneumonia-like symptoms (such as fever, chills, coughing, and breathing problems) that occur with no sign of infection in the lung.

(Idiopathic pneumonia syndrome, NCI Dictionary)