But besides these suffocative attacks there also occur general convulsions affecting the whole muscular system of the body, and occasionally a condition of tetanic spasm.
Excessive length of the frenum is occasionally met with, and in children may allow of the tongue falling back into the throat and causing sudden suffocative attacks, one of which may prove fatal.
In some cases alarming suffocative attacks occasionally supervene during sleep, but the difficulty in breathing disappears as soon as the child is wakened.
Woodland Strawberry, which is of excellent service for nettle rash, or allied erysipelas: also for a suffocative swelling of the swallowing throat.
When used in a diluted form it is highly beneficial for relieving the same symptoms, if they come on as an attack of illness, particularly for the spurious croup of children, which wakes them at night with a suffocative cough and wheezing.
In certain epidemics orthopnoea andsuffocative attacks were very common.
Sudden suffocative symptoms, with open air-passages, suggest embolism of the larger branches of the pulmonary artery.
There may be an extension of the tracheo-bronchitis to the finer bronchial tubes, thus producing capillary bronchitis (suffocative catarrh).
Should the mass be so situated as to compress the trachea, suffocative symptoms may be produced.
When it does occur, pain is experienced about the heart; the action of the organ becomes irregular; praecordial anxiety and oppression are felt; suffocative attacks occur; and very soon the symptoms of pericarditis arise.
Is it anything strange that a dissipated, weakened man should die after having a score of suffocative fits?
A gentleman present at the time of his seeing a vision, says "that he had been attacked several times by suffocative fits the month before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suffocative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
