a. [f. L. tussi-s cough + -IVE.] Pertaining to or caused by cough.
1857. Dunglison, Med. Lex., Tussive, belonging or relating to cough:—as tussive vibration; the vibration of the parietes of the chest, caused by coughing.
1862. H. W. Fuller, Dis. Lungs, 22. Tussive fremitus and rhonchal fremitus … possess little value as indications of disease.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 87. Vocal or tussive vibrations and sounds from the main air-tubes.
