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Expectoration

noun
1.
The process of coughing up and spitting out.
2.
The act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva).  Synonyms: spit, spitting.





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"Expectoration" Quotes from Famous Books



... of May a favourable turn of the disorder of his majesty gave rise to a hope of his recovery. This feeling, however, was soon dispersed, for the chest became affected, the lungs completely decayed, blood was mingled with the expectoration, and general debility rapidly ensued. His end was evidently near; and a short time before it took place his physicians intimated to his majesty that all further endeavours to avert the stroke of death ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan


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