Semantics and types of cough

Kian Fan Chung , Don Bolser , Paul Davenport , Giovanni Fontana , Alyn Morice , John Widdicombe

The panel considered the different types of cough in terms of basic mechanisms and clinical manifestations; both experimentally and clinically cough could occur in single efforts and as ‘bouts' or ‘epochs'. There were different definitions of cough but, provided the definition used was clear, this did not seem to be a major concern.

Mots clés: cough; cough reflexes; cough types; cough semantics; cough sounds

Kian Fan Chung, Don Bolser, Paul Davenport, Giovanni Fontana, Alyn Morice, et al.. Semantics and types of cough. Pulmonary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2009, 22 (2), pp.139. ⟨10.1016/j.pupt.2008.12.008⟩. ⟨hal-00516735⟩