pertussis

9 letters · noun · scores 2,600 in SpellHuntr

noun

a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane

Pertussis in a sentence

Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative bacterial pathogen that infects the human respiratory tract, causing the disease pertussis or whooping cough.

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