pertussis (pəˈtʌsɪs) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| the technical name for whooping cough | |
| [C18: New Latin, from Latin per- (intensive) + tussis cough] | |
| per'tussal | |
| —adj | |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
pertussis per·tus·sis (pər-tŭs'ĭs)
n.
See whooping cough.
| pertussis (pər-tŭs'ĭs) Pronunciation Key
See whooping cough. |