Definitions for tussis

tussis tus·sis

Spelling: [tuhs-is]
IPA: /ˈtʌs ɪs/

Tussis is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in tussis (issstu).

Definitions for tussis

noun

  1. a cough.
  2. Tutsi.

Origin of tussis

Latin: a cough

Examples for tussis

But his body grew heavy with the increasing ills of extreme age, and the hard breathing of tussis.

Deeper he bent over his books, racked by the stone (calculus): bronchitis (tussis) attacked him; but still he refused to rest.

The earliest references to it are in the medieval Latin chronicles under the name of tussis or cough, or in some periphrasis.

Calculus and tussis (l. 88) are diseases, the stone and bronchitis, that attacked him.

Name from tussis, a cough, for which the plant is a reputed remedy.

The botanical name, Tussilago, recalls its use as a medicine for cough (tussis).

In pectore sunt flatus & tussis ut in aere uenti & tonitrua.

This is perhaps the only special reference to tussis as epidemic until the influenzas of the seventeenth century.

So the periods of tussis ferina, or violent cough with slow pulse, called nervous cough, recurs by solar periods.

The plant has its Latin name from tussis, a cough, and for many centuries has been used in pulmonary complaints.

Word Value for tussis
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6

Words with friends

7

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