croup
kroohp
- n a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing
- n the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
- Because helium is light and therefore requires little effort to inhale, doctors have found it of value in treating asthma, croup, laryngitis and diphtheria when a constriction .
- One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles .
- Parainfluenza 2 is one of the common causes of croup in children.