asthmatic
Example Sentences
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When the lights go out, the 60-year-old asthmatic douses himself with water and wheezes in the dark, barely able to breathe.
From Seattle Times
Ventilation in particular is a big concern as her son is asthmatic.
From BBC
“The children, as asthmatics treated with corticosteroids, already faced possible bone health problems and diminished growth,” Piller writes, “and any vitamin D deficiency would place them at greater risk for fractures.”
From Washington Post
Jeffers lives with his wife and daughter, who are asthmatic.
From Los Angeles Times
He doubts that any hospital panel that green-lit the study asked how its own physicians would normally treat asthmatic children deficient in vitamin D. None would fail to give baseline supplements, he says.
From Science Magazine
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