Definition of Asthma

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Asthma

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

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Asthma Quotations

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.
Steve Allen

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
Ville Valo

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.
Cathy Freeman

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.
Thomas Keneally

I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die.
Esai Morales

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.
Dominique Wilkins

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
Patrick White

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.
Gwen Moore

Asthma research is a lot better and new medicines are always coming out to help young people.
Dominique Wilkins

Asthma Translations

asthma in Danish is astma
asthma in Dutch is astma, aamborstigheid
asthma in French is asthme, asthma
asthma in German is Asthma {n}
asthma in Hungarian is asztma
asthma in Italian is asma
asthma in Spanish is asma, astma
asthma in Swedish is astma

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