whooping cough
181 synonyms found
- acute articular rheumatism
- acute bronchitis
- adenoiditis
- African lethargy
- ague
- alkali disease
- aluminosis
- amebiasis
- amebic dysentery
- amygdalitis
- anthracosilicosis
- anthracosis
- anthrax
- asbestosis
- Asiatic cholera
- Asiatic flu
- asthma
- atypical pneumonia
- bacillary dysentery
- bastard measles
- bituminosis
- black death
- black fever
- black lung
- blackwater fever
- breakbone fever
- bronchial pneumonia
- bronchiectasis
- bronchiolitis
- bronchitis
- bronchopneumonia
- brucellosis
- bubonic plague
- cachectic fever
- catarrh
- cerebral rheumatism
- Chagres fever
- chalicosis
- chicken pox
- cholera
- chronic bronchitis
- collapsed lung
- common cold
- coniosis
- coryza
- cowpox
- croup
- croupous pneumonia
- dandy fever
- deer fly fever
- dengue
- dengue fever
- diphtheria
- double pneumonia
- dry pleurisy
- dumdum fever
- dysentery
- elephantiasis
- emphysema
- empyema
- encephalitis lethargica
- enteric fever
- epidemic pleurodynia
- erysipelas
- famine fever
- fibrinous pneumonia
- five-day fever
- flu
- frambesia
- German measles
- glandular fever
- grippe
- hansenosis
- Haverhill fever
- hay fever
- hepatitis
- herpes
- herpes simplex
- herpes zoster
- histoplasmosis
- Hong Kong flu
- hookworm
- infantile paralysis
- infectious mononucleosis
- inflammatory rheumatism
- influenza
- jail fever
- jungle rot
- kala azar
- kissing disease
- la grippe
- laryngitis
- lepra
- leprosy
- leptospirosis
- lipoid pneumonia
- loa loa
- loaiasis
- lobar pneumonia
- lung cancer
- lung fever
- madness
- malaria
- malarial fever
- marsh fever
- measles
- meningitis
- milzbrand
- mumps
- ornithosis
- osteomyelitis
- paratyphoid fever
- parotitis
- parrot fever
- pertussis
- pharyngitis
- pleurisy
- pleuritis
- pneumococcal pneumonia
- pneumoconiosis
- pneumonia
- pneumonic fever
- pneumothorax
- polio
- poliomyelitis
- polyarthritis rheumatism
- ponos
- psittacosis
- quinsy
- rabbit fever
- rabies
- rat-bite fever
- relapsing fever
- rheum
- rheumatic fever
- rickettsialpox
- ringworm
- rubella
- rubeola
- scarlet fever
- schistosomiasis
- septic sore throat
- shingles
- siderosis
- silicosis
- sleeping sickness
- sleepy sickness
- smallpox
- snail fever
- sore throat
- splenic fever
- spotted fever
- strep throat
- swamp fever
- swine flu
- tetanus
- the sniffles
- the snuffles
- thrush
- tinea
- tonsilitis
- trench fever
- trench mouth
- tuberculosis
- tularemia
- typhoid
- typhoid fever
- typhus
- typhus fever
- undulant fever
- vaccinia
- varicella
- venereal disease
- viral dysentery
- virus pneumonia
- wet pleurisy
- yaws
- yellow fever
- yellow jack
- zona
- zoster
Definition
(n) :
a contagious disease of the respiratory system that usually affects children; caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. In the advanced stage it is characterised by spasms of coughing followed by a whooping sound during the intake of breath