tosferina
See also: tos ferina
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From tos (“cough”) + ferina, feminine of ferino (“wild”).
Noun
tosferina f (plural tosferinas)
- whooping cough
- Synonyms: pertusis, tos convulsa
Related terms
Further reading
- “tosferina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28