asthmatic

Etymology

From Latin asthmaticus, from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “affliected with shortness of breath”), from ἆσθμα (âsthma, “short-drawn breath, panting”) (compare asthma); synchronically, asthma + -ic.

adj

1. Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
   The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them. 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, page 71

noun

1. A person who suffers from asthma.