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The process of coughing up and spitting out
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expectoration
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the process of coughing up and spitting out the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) [syn: spit , spitting ]
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, noun of action from expectorate .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of expectorate, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting. 2 That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expectoration \Ex*pec`to*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. expectoration.] The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
Usage examples of expectoration.
There was much expectoration of muco-purulent fluid, and on the third day complete aphonia, but the symptoms gradually disappeared, and recovery was complete in eight days.
In France continuous inhalations of Peppermint oil combined with creasote and glycerine, have become used most successfully, even when cavities exist in the lungs, with copious bacillary expectoration.
Later, with the view of soothing the pain of the cough, and favouring expectoration, mixtures of tolu, with the addition of some opiate, such as the ordinary paregorics, may be advantageously employed.
When the cough is dry and hard, with no expectoration, it arises from irritation of some of the branches of the pneumogastric nerve, which this remedy will relieve.
Thereafter he complained of various pains, bloody expectoration, and had convulsions at varying intervals, with loss of consciousness, rapid respiration, unaccelerated pulse, and excessively high temperature, the last on one occasion reaching the height of 148 degrees F.
The injury was limited by localized pneumonia and peritonitis, and the wound was drained through the lung by free expectoration.
In like manner healthy human provers have become hoarse of voice through taking the plant, and troubled with a severe cough, accompanied with the expectoration of abundant yellow mucus, just as in tubercular mischief beginning at the windpipe.
Owing to the morbid action of the vital forces, it is formed and deposited as fast or faster than it can be thrown off by expectoration.
Short, acute, painful coughs, with soreness in the lungs and no expectoration.
Late stage of inflammatory coughs, with expectoration of slimy, yellow or watery-yellow matter.
Purple when growing, the leaves of this vegetable were blue-black when cured, making his frequent expectorations look like ink.
The painful chest symptoms become less distressing when expectoration begins.
Syrup of Garlic is an invaluable medicine for asthma, hoarseness, coughs, difficulty of breathing, and most other disorders of the lungs, being of particular virtue in chronic bronchitis, on account of its powers of promoting expectoration.
Cough, when the expectoration is loose, mattery and sometimes streaked with blood.
Chronic coughs, with thick, profuse, yellowish-green mattery expectoration.