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WHEEZINESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does wheeziness mean?

• WHEEZINESS (noun)
The noun WHEEZINESS has 1 sense:

1. presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis)

Familiarity information: WHEEZINESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• WHEEZINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("wheeziness" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

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