a medical condition of the chest that makes breathing difficult 哮病;哮喘 a severe asthma attack 哮喘嚴重發作 We have thousands of asthma cases a year. 我們每年接診的哮喘病例達數千起。 children who develop asthma 出現哮喘的兒童
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- severe
- acute
- chronic
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- have
- suffer from
- develop
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- attack
- symptoms
- sufferer
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Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin asma, from Greek asthma, from azein ‘breathe hard’.