croup
IPA: krˈup
noun
- The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
- (pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
verb
- (obsolete outside dialects) To croak, make a hoarse noise.
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Examples of "croup" in Sentences
- It is occasionally confused with croup.
- The croup is slightly sloping downward.
- The back is short and the croup sloping.
- The croup is long, with a definite slope.
- The quarters are rounded and the croup slopes.
- The quarters are rounded, with a sloping croup.
- Another type of croup is known as spasmodic croup.
- The back is straight and the croup muscular and sloping.
- Natalie's ashy face and the word croup, acted like a talisman.
- The width of chest is broad and deep, the croup is very muscular.
- The back is long and the croup broad, muscular and slightly sloping.
- Membranous croup, which is the same thing as diphtheria of the larynx.
- The great majority of cases of the so - called croup are simply cases of spasm of the glottis.
- They had come from a part of the interior where the disease called croup occasionally prevails.
- _true_ or _membranous_ croup, in which a false, semi-organized membrane is formed, and _spasmodic croup_.
- Gertie opened her mouth to say that the croup was a disease Amos had caught, but tramped on her tongue in time.
- All I can think about when I hear the word croup is that scene from Anne of Green Gables, when she saves Diana's sister.
- The doctor said that "croup" is actually a catch-all for any illness that comes with a barky cough, and that his version seems quite mild, though he has lost his voice .... which for my little chatty Nancy is pretty traumatic.
- It happened, on one occasion, when a nursery-servant of ours was waiting in her anteroom for the purpose of taking her turn in consulting the prophetess professionally, that she had witnessed a scene of consternation and unaffected maternal grief in this Hungarian lady upon the sudden seizure of her son, a child of four or five years old, by a spasmodic inflammation of the throat (since called croup) peculiar to children, and in those days not very well understood by medical men.
- It happened, on one occasion, when a nursery-servant of ours was waiting in her anteroom for the purpose of taking her turn in consulting the prophetess professionally, that she had witnessed a scene of consternation and unaffected maternal grief in this Hungarian lady upon the sudden seizure of her son, a child of four or five years old, by a spasmodic inflammation of the throat (since called croup), peculiar to children, and in those days not very well understood by medical men.
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