asthma

«asthma» in Mova's school dictionary: An illness that makes the small air tubes in the lungs… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (asthma — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

An illness that makes the small air tubes in the lungs become narrow, so that breathing is hard and a person may cough, wheeze and feel a tight chest. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health lessons, many children have asthma and use an inhaler (puffer) with medicine to open their airways. Triggers can include exercise, cold air, dust, pollen, smoke and colds. In safety lessons, you learn to tell an adult quickly if a friend is having an asthma attack. Phrases: asthma attack, have asthma, asthma inhaler, asthma trigger.

examples

• My friend has asthma and carries an inhaler. tree →
• Cold air can bring on her asthma. tree →
• During an asthma attack it is hard to breathe. tree →
• Tell a teacher at once if someone cannot breathe. tree →
• He uses his puffer before running. tree →
• Smoke is bad for people with asthma. tree →
• I forgot to tell you that the Shark was suffering from asthma, so that whenever he breathed a storm seemed to blow. tree →

note

Uncountable: "She has asthma", not "an asthma". Spelling and pronunciation trap: a-s-t-h-m-a, said "AZ-muh" or "ASS-muh"; the "th" is silent. The adjective is "asthmatic". Asthma is not catching; you cannot get it from a friend. In Australia and New Zealand an inhaler is often called a "puffer".

In the corpora

• Animal allergies can trigger asthma attacks that make breathing very hard; a child with asthma uses his inhaler and tells an adult.
• A cough that lasts for weeks or makes breathing hard needs a doctor, because it can be asthma or an infection.
• Asthma narrows the tubes that carry air into the lungs, so breathing is hard and wheezy; a reliever inhaler opens them again.
• In an asthma attack, sit the person up, help them use their reliever inhaler and fetch an adult.
• Eczema, food allergy, hay fever and asthma often come together in the same child, because the immune system is extra sensitive.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «asthma» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.