a. Path. [f. CROUP sb.2]

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  1.  Of the nature of, or characteristic of, croup.

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1853.  Paget, Lect. Surg. Pathol., I. 335, note. Considering croupous exudations to be peculiarly fibrinous.

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1888.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., 10 March, 548/2. Croupous pneumonia.

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  2.  Affected with croup.

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1881.  J. F. Keane, Six Months in Meccah, v. 105–6. Whines not unlike what the roars of an enraged croupous lion might be supposed to be.

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