A cough ( pronunciation (help·info) Latin: tussis), in medicine, is a sudden and often repetitively occurring defense reflex which helps to clear the large breathing passages from excess secretions, irritants, foreign particles and microbes. The cough reflex consists of three phases: an inhalation, a forced exhalation against a closed glottis, and a violent release of air from the lungs following opening of the glottis, usually accompanied by a d...
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Cough
Medicine
Symptom of:
- Lung cancer
- Medullary thyroid cancer
- Anaplastic thyroid cancer
- Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
- Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
- Throat cancer
- AIDS
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Tuberculosis
- Influenza
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