Croup vs Bronchitis - What's the difference?
croup | bronchitis |
The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1835 , Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history
(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
(uncountable) An inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.
(countable) An occurrence of, a case (patient) of, or a type of bronchitis.
As nouns the difference between croup and bronchitis
is that croup is the top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped or croup can be (pathology) an infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty while bronchitis is bronchitis.As a verb croup
is (obsolete|outside|dialects) to croak, make a hoarse noise.croup
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) croupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
- The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup .