SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spasmodic laryngitis mean? 

• SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS (noun)
  The noun SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS has 1 sense:

1. a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing

  Familiarity information: SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPASMODIC LARYNGITIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

croup; spasmodic laryngitis

Hypernyms ("spasmodic laryngitis" is a kind of...):

angina (any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain)