Chapter 18 - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)»Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems (R00-R09)»Cough (R05)
R05
Cough
Related indications (MeSH) (1)
Cough158 drugs (69 approved, 89 experimental)
A sudden, audible expulsion of air from the lungs through a partially closed glottis, preceded by inhalation. It is a protective response that serves to clear the trachea, bronchi, and/or lungs of irritants and secretions, or to prevent aspiration of foreign materials into the lungs.