Associations to the word «Pertussis»

Wiktionary

PERTUSSIS, noun. (pathology) whooping cough

Dictionary definition

PERTUSSIS, noun. A disease of the respiratory mucous membrane.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne