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the croup
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synonyms: laryngotracheobronchitis ???
tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:a respiratory infection that normally only lasts 1 to 2 days. It is very rarely fatal.
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Lila, who was not afraid of the croup after seeing both of her own through bouts with it, picked her up by the heels and swatted her firmly on the back.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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the cruel memory, that always tore her mother’s heart, of the death of her last little baby, who had died of croup;
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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The reader will remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of inhalations of alum,
Victor Hugo. Les Misérables (1862)
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