spasmodic laryngitis

1. 1.

   a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing

   Synonymscroup

   Broaderangina

Questions about spasmodic laryngitis

What does spasmodic laryngitis mean?

spasmodic laryngitis means "a disease of infants and young children; harsh coughing and hoarseness and fever and difficult breathing".

What is another word for spasmodic laryngitis?

Close synonyms include croup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spasmodic laryngitis a common word?

spasmodic laryngitis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.