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The Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr Matt and Dr. Mark's medical podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Mark Todorovich, and I'm joined by my co-host, Jeanette McDonald.

How are you, Jeanette?

I'm trying to come up with a good dad joke about airplanes,

but none seem to land.

Well done.

Well done.

Today, friends, we are talking about cough.

We are talking about that, oh, excuse you, it's, to begin with,

it's a really important defensive mechanism. We all do it. It's important to maintain

normal physiology, but it can go a little bit awry and be the result of a number of diseases

and disorders, but also be a problem

in itself. But before we start talking about cough and jumping into it, Matt, can you provide us

with a definition of what a cough actually is? Okay, so you want the etymology of the term or

the actual definition, medical definition?

Yeah, first medically, first define it and then let's go into the etymology, the origin of the word.

Okay, so the verbal definition is to expel air from the lungs suddenly with a sharp, short noise or the noun is a sudden sharp sounding expulsion of air from the lungs acting as a

protective mechanism to clear the air passage or symptom of pulmonary disturbance.

Nice. Okay. That's pretty good. So it's basically we use air to get crap out. That's right. And I wonder if you'd call it a part of the immune system.

Would you call it a physiological innate immune response?

I 100% would.

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