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pertussis

noun

  1. human disease caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis
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Pronunciation: /pəˈtʌsɪs/ / /pɚˈtʌsɪs/

noun

Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin per- (“thorough”) + tussis (“cough”).

  1. Whooping cough.

    “With the introduction of an improved and standardized pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there followed a remarkable decline in pertussis in the United States, most of the Western world, and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.”

    “Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that infects the human respiratory tract, causing the disease pertussis or whooping cough.”