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n. - A person suffering from labored breathing either continuous or paroxysmal accompanied by wheezing, a sense of constriction in the chest, and often by attacks of coughing adj. - Relating to breathing with a whistling sound.

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  • In his case it is that he is a chronic asthmatic.
  • She is a chronic asthmatic
  • The painful gasps of a dying asthmatic
  • Safe administration of influenza vaccine in asthmatic children hypersensitive to egg proteins.
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