Resembling or similar to asthma or the symptoms of asthma without actually being true asthma.
From asthma (Greek 'difficult breathing') plus -oid (Greek 'resembling'). This medical term combines the condition name with the suffix meaning 'like' to describe asthma-like conditions.
Doctors use 'asthmatoid' to describe conditions that look like asthma under a microscope but behave differently—it's medical language for 'this looks like a duck but might not be'.
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