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pertusses

pertusses is the plural of pertussis.

Meaning of pertussis

Noun

pertussis (countable and uncountable, plural pertusses)

  1. 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.1976, Charles R. Manclark, “The Current Status of Pertussis Vaccine: An Overview”, in D. Perlman, editor, Advances in Applied Microbiology, volume 20, page 1

Questions about pertusses

What is pertusses the plural of?
Pertusses is the plural of pertussis.

Words near pertusses in the dictionary

  1. pertuse
  2. pertused
  3. pertusion
  4. pertusions
  5. pertussal
  6. pertusses
  7. pertussis
  8. pertussoid
  9. pertuzumab
  10. Pertwee
  11. Peru

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