CROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does croup mean? 

• CROUP (noun)
  The noun CROUP has 2 senses:

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

2. the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

  Familiarity information: CROUP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROUP (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 ("croup" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

croupy (resembling or arising from or indicating croup)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

croup; croupe; hindquarters; rump

Hypernyms ("croup" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "croup"):

haunch (the loin and leg of a quadruped)

Holonyms ("croup" is a part of...):

bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)

quadruped (an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking)

 Context examples 

The serotype labeled 3 of the viral species Human parainfluenza virus, which is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family and Respirovirus genus, and causes croup and respiratory infections in humans.

(Human Parainfluenza Virus 3, NCI Thesaurus)

The serotype labeled 2 of the viral species Human parainfluenza virus, which is a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus of the Paramyxoviridae family and Rubulavirus genus, and causes croup and respiratory infections in humans.

(Human Parainfluenza Virus 2, NCI Thesaurus)

A single-stranded, negative-sense RNA virus of the paramyxovirus group that causes croup in children.

(Human Parainfluenza Virus 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes of chronic cough include: • Chronic bronchitis • Asthma • Allergies • COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) • GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) • Smoking • Throat disorders, such as croup in young children • Some medicines

(Cough, NIH)