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Expectoration   Listen
noun
Expectoration  n.  
1.
The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
2.
That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.





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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


Words linked to "Expectoration" :   body process, bodily function, forcing out, spitting, expectorate, bodily process


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