noun
definition
Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat.
definition
A discharge of fluid associated with this condition.
Examples of catarrh in a Sentence
He still had a cough productive of clear catarrh and left sided chest pains.
The juice has been used as a nasal douche for catarrh.
He successful created a unique set of movements, which he successfully used to clear chronic catarrh and facial acne.
There may be other associated symptoms such as a continuous drip at the back of the throat (nasal catarrh) and heartburn.
In the body it helps to clear respiratory congestion, including sinuses and relieving catarrh and asthma.
Inhaling the steam is also said to help sufferers of bronchial catarrh.
The chief interest of the place centres in its brine springs which are largely impregnated with carbonic acid gas and oxide of iron, and are efficacious in chronic catarrh of the respiratory organs, in liver and stomach disorders and women's diseases.
It is subject, however, to extreme and rapid variations in temperature, to alternations of dry and humid winds (the latter, called catias, being irritating and oppressive), to chilling night mists brought up from the coast by the westerly winds, and to other influences productive of malaria, catarrh, fevers, bilious disorders and rheumatism.