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Hiccup   /hˈɪkəp/   Listen
Hiccup

verb
(past hiccupped; past part. hiccupped or hiccuped; pres. part. hicupping or hiccuping)
1.
Breathe spasmodically, and make a sound.  Synonym: hiccough.



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"Hiccup" Quotes from Famous Books



... had begun to look rather sickly under the eyes and to hiccup three or four times in distressed manner; when suddenly the clamor round the fight ceased. Frank was aware of a shrill old voice calling out something behind him; and the next instant, simultaneously with the dropping of his adversary's hands, he himself was seized ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson

... 205). Recession of the eyeballs, narrowing of the palpebral fissures, and contraction of the pupils result from paralysis of the cervical sympathetic. Respiration is almost exclusively carried on by the diaphragm, and hiccup is often persistent. There is at first retention of urine, followed by dribbling from overflow, and sugar is sometimes found in the urine. Priapism is common. The pulse is slow (40 to 50) and full; and the temperature often rises very ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles



Words linked to "Hiccup" :   instinctive reflex, reflex action, innate reflex, reflex, hiccup nut, plural, take a breath, inborn reflex, breathe, symptom, physiological reaction, reflex response, hiccough, singultus, suspire, respire, unconditioned reflex, plural form



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