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pertussis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pertussis  \Per*tus"sis\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  L.  per  through  very  + 
  tussis  cough.]  (Med.) 
  The  whooping  cough. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pertussis 
  n  :  a  disease  of  the  respiratory  mucous  membrane  [syn:  {whooping 
  cough}] 




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