cough (something) up

Examples of coughing

coughing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

It is associated with a high level of morbidity, particularly fatigue, pain, breathlessness, and coughing.
Rare edits betray some analog sources, and a little applause and coughing some live performances.
Traditionally, a large number of different decoctions and mixtures have been used to inhibit coughing (cough suppressants) or to promote expectoration.
The overall mean duration of coughing symptoms was 13 days, and 32 individuals (28 %) met the clinical case definition for pertussis.
Common symptoms are sudden respiratory distress-particularly in cold air, during respiratory tract infections, and during stress-"wheezy chest," and nocturnal coughing.
In comparison to airborne transmission symptoms such as sore throat, pharyngeal erythema, and enlarged tonsils, submandibular lymphadenopathy are more frequent than coughing and coryza.
The 18 patients who came to the clinic with persistent coughing were added to the numerator.
Coughing and spitting wildly, she disgorges a sharp.
These subjects were exposed equally to the members of the initial group of 18 coughing subjects.
Of the 115 who completed questionnaires, 74 % (85/115) reported coughing symptoms over the period covered by the two questionnaires.
Completed questionnaires were obtained from 115 students, of whom 85 (74 %) reported coughing symptoms, including 32 (28 %) who met the clinical case definition for pertussis.
Chance-determined ambient sound (the coughing of the audience, the rustling of programmes and creaking of chairs, for example) becomes the music.
Each respondent was then asked to imagine three situations: waking up one morning suffering from eye irritation, stomach upset, or coughing.
Clinical symptoms such as wheezing, coughing and episodic airflow obstruction have been described for patients with toxocariasis and allergic asthma.
This entails the patient holding their breath while swallowing, and then coughing after swallowing, to clear residual material in the pharynx.
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