HICCOUGH
\hˈɪkɒf], \hˈɪkɒf], \h_ˈɪ_k_ɒ_f]\
Definitions of HICCOUGH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.
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To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.
By Oddity Software
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A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.
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To have a hiccough or hiccoughs.
By Noah Webster.
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A spasm of the diaphragm that causes a sudden inhalation followed by rapid closure of the glottis which produces a sound.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An interrupted inspiration produced by the sudden and spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm and the closure of the glottis in the midst of the inspiration.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [O. English, German] A spasmodic inspiration, accompanied with a closure of glottis, producing a sudden sound; also, the sound itself.
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A convulsion of the stomach producing sobs.
By Thomas Sheridan
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