pertussis

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pertussis

/pəˈtʌsɪs/ UK
/pɚˈtʌsɪs/ US

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

noun pertusses

countable, uncountable Whooping cough. 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.

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@misc{pertussis_2026,
  title = {pertussis},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pertussis},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}