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asthmata

noun
USAZ-muh-tuh/ˈæzmətə/UKAS-muh-tuh/ˈasmətə/

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  1. 1
    noun
    Plural of asthma. A rare learned plural; asthmas is the usual form.
    It is not scientific to classify asthmata into animal asthma and vegetable asthma, and smell asthma, etc.
    1901, Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati, Aphorisms
    Note

    A plural for a noun that usually takes none: asthma is normally uncountable, so a plural appears only when a writer means kinds of the condition rather than the condition itself. Andrea Carlo Francisco Rabagliati uses it that way in 1901, objecting to sorting asthmata into animal, vegetable and smell asthma, while naming each kind in the singular. A patient simply has asthma.

asthmata is a form of asthma

asthma, noun: A long-term condition in which the airways narrow suddenly and unexpectedly, often triggered by allergens, cold air, exercise, or stress, causing wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. Full entry

Forms
asthmaasthmas pluralasthmata plural
Spelling
asthma → asthmata: irregular plural (no -s)

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