Cough

English translation: coughing session/fit/attack

11:34 Jun 30, 2004

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Medical (general)

English term or phrase: Cough

The sentence:
What we are asking for is the number of times your child coughed, and not about the individual coughs. You do not need to count the number of coughs he/she made in one cough.

Question: "the number of coughs he/she made in one cough" - does this sound right? If not, how would you change it?

Denyce Seow KudoZ activity Questions: 1852 (9 open) (54 closed without grading) Answers: 1534 Singapore
Local time: 01:17

Selected answer:coughing session/fit/attack

Explanation:
a coughing session or a fit of coughing can be made up of a number of different 'coughs'

so sth. like 'the number of coughs in one coughing fit/attack

Selected response from:

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 19:17

Grading comment

Thanks, folks.
My special appreciation goes to Elena....
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +13

coughing session/fit/attack

Cilian O'Tuama

3 +9

coughing spell

Elena Sgarbo (X)

coughing fit

Paul Dixon

the number of individual coughs in one attack

Melanie Nassar

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +13

cough

coughing session/fit/attack

Explanation:
a coughing session or a fit of coughing can be made up of a number of different 'coughs'

so sth. like 'the number of coughs in one coughing fit/attack

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 19:17
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28

Grading comment

Thanks, folks.
My special appreciation goes to Elena....

7 mins confidence:

cough the number of individual coughs in one attack

Explanation:
I would call it a coughing attack, as opposed to individual coughs.

Melanie Nassar
United States
Local time: 20:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +9

cough coughing spell

Explanation:
Hi Denyce

The text is a bit puzzling (at least for standard US medical English). My guess is that they mean:

1- the number of times your child coughed= the number of times your child had a **coughing spell**

2- the number of coughs he/she made in one cough= the number of **individual coughs** he/she had in one **coughing spell**

Hope this helps,

Elena

Eleven patients had complete closure of the fistula site at follow-up (range, 2 weeks to 2 years). One patient developed a leak during a ** coughing spell ** 2 days after the operation, and the fistula was noted to be closing with a small leak at follow-up...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&d...

Eleven patients had complete closure of the fistula site at follow-up (range, 2 weeks to 2 years). One patient developed a leak during a coughing spell 2 days after the operation, and the fistula was noted to be closing with a small leak at follow-up

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Note added at 42 mins (2004-06-30 12:17:18 GMT)
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:::::::::::: Perhaps it would be clearer to summarize that the 2 \"coughs\" should be rendered slighly differently for each usage in your text:

- coughing spell (or attack, as the colleagues have offered)
- individual cough

:-)

Elena Sgarbo (X)
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 87

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Sven Petersson

5 mins

-> Thanks, Sven!

agree

Elena Petelos

10 mins

-> Thanks, Elena

agree

Will Matter: also acceptable.

13 mins

-> Thanks, willmatter

agree

Alexander Onishko

15 mins

-> Thanks, Alexander

agree

Graciela Carlyle: a bit strange indeed, but I see it more like your option 2. Note: yep, now i see it :o) Problem is that they are refering to two different things with the exact same term.

16 mins

-> Thanks, Graciela. Number 1 and 2 are not options but rather the parts of the troubling text, parsed and rendered in other words... :-)

agree

n/a (X): tambien

29 mins

-> Thanks, Iain :-)

agree

Vicky Papaprodromou

1 hr

-> Thanks, Vicky

agree

Eva Karpouzi

12 hrs

-> Thanks, Eva

agree

Jonathan MacKerron: "coughing spell" gets 2600 googles

19 hrs

-> Yep... "coughing spell" is a quite common expression! Thanks, Jonathan

11 hrs confidence:

cough coughing fit

Explanation:
Out of the three terms "coughing session/fit/attack" proposed herein, I feel that "fit" is the one that best describes what happens in this case, similar to an "epileptic fit" (no-one would say "epileptic session" or "epileptic attack"). "A bout of coughing" would also be OK, but sounds a bit technical.

Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 14:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese

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