pertussis

名词 n.
/pəˈtʌsɪs/    /pɚˈtʌsɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Whooping cough. countable,uncountable
    — With the introduction of an improved and standardized pertussis vaccine in the 1940s, there followed a remarkable decline in pertussis in the United States, most of the Western world, and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

词形变化

pertusses plural

词源

From New Latin, from Latin per- (“thorough”) + tussis (“cough”).
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