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pertussis

/pɚˈtʌsɪs/

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per-TUSS-iss: put the main beat on TUSS.

The stressed vowel matches “cup.” Both s sounds are unvoiced, and the final syllable has the short i of “sit.”

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What does pertussis mean?

noun

  1. Whooping cough.

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IPA pronunciation

/pɚˈtʌsɪs/

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Hicks speaks of a child of ten months suffering with a severe cough resembling pertussis, whose lung ruptured about two weeks after the beginning of the cough, causing death on the second day.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747