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Croup Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Croup?
[n] the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks
[n] a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing Synonyms | Synonyms for Croup: croupe | hindquarters | rump | spasmodic laryngitis Related Terms | Find terms related to Croup: acute bronchitis | adenoiditis | aluminosis | amygdalitis | anthracosilicosis | anthracosis | asbestosis | Asiatic flu | asthma | atypical pneumonia | backside | behind | bituminosis | black lung | bronchial pneumonia | bronchiectasis | bronchiolitis | bronchitis | bronchopneumonia | butt | buttocks | catarrh | chalicosis | chronic bronchitis | cold | collapsed lung | common cold | coniosis | coryza | croupous pneumonia | crupper | double pneumonia | dry pleurisy | emphysema | empyema | epidemic pleurodynia | fibrinous pneumonia | flu | grippe | haunches | hay fever | hind end | Hong Kong flu | influenza | la grippe | laryngitis | lipoid pneumonia | lobar pneumonia | lung cancer | lung fever | nates | pharyngitis | pleurisy | pleuritis | pneumococcal pneumonia | pneumoconiosis | pneumonia | pneumonic fever | pneumothorax | posterior | quinsy | rear | rear end | rheum | rump | siderosis | silicosis | sore throat | swine flu | the sniffles | the snuffles | tonsilitis | virus pneumonia | wet pleurisy | whooping cough See Also | angina | body part | haunch | quadruped Croup In Webster's Dictionary \Croup\ (kr??p), n. [F. croupe hind quarters, croup, rump,
of German or Icel. origin; cf. Icel. kryppa hump; akin to
Icel. kroppr. Cf. {Crop}.]
The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially
of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle.
So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light
to the saddle before her he sprung. --Sir W.
Scott.
\Croup\ (kr??p), n. [Scot. croup, cf. croup, crowp, to croak, to cry or speak with a hoarse voice; cf. also LG. kropp, G. kropf, the crop or craw of a bird, and tumor on the anterior part of the neck, a wen, etc. Cf. {Crop}.] (Med.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called {membranous croup}). See {False croup}, under {False}, and {Diphtheria}. |
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