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asthma
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  • She sends $10 across town to her mother to help her buy heart and asthma medicine.  (source)
  • But Benny got the asthma tonight, so Minny ain't gone make it.  (source)
    asthma = a common respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and sometimes coughing
  • "My auntie told me not to run," he explained, "on account of my asthma."  (source)
    asthma = a common lung disorder characterized by wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and sometimes coughing
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  • Chicago has one of the worst asthma problems in the United States.  (source)
    asthma = a common lung disorder characterized by wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and sometimes coughing
  • Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed; wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased; all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colick-pangs, Demoniack phrenzy, moaping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.†  (source)
  • He'd stop chasing me because he had asthma, and by the time he caught his breath I would be miles away.  (source)
  • She had been hospitalized once before for appendicitis, had mild asthma, and was generally healthy.  (source)
  • I felt one of my asthma attacks coming on.  (source)
  • Remedios went over and asked some questions about the fish that Aureliano could not answer because he was seized with a sudden attack of asthma.  (source)
  • It made her feel essential to him when she'd crack a bawdy joke about some mutual acquaintance and see him fall back onto a sofa, scissoring his feet in the air, laughing so hard that his asthma kicked up.  (source)
  • I can barely breathe already—and I got asthma, too.†  (source)
  • Two older men, one with a cast on his leg, the other wheezing with asthma, and a young man of fifteen or sixteen who'd had appendix surgery.†  (source)
  • This one cured asthma.†  (source)
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