a. [f. as prec. + -Y.] = prec.

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1834.  J. Forbes, Laennec’s Dis. Chest (ed. 4), 113. The croupy or false membrane.

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1839–47.  Todd, Cycl. Anat., III. 125/2. On the opening into the windpipe being perfected the croupy breathing disappeared.

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