Definition of phlegm

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Phlegm (a.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

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Pituitary :: Pituitary (a.) Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities..
Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
Cough :: Cough (v. t.) To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm..
Phlegmatical :: Phlegmatical (a.) Phlegmatic.
Leucophlegmatic :: Leucophlegmatic (a.) Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin..
Phlegmatic :: Phlegmatic (a.) Generating or causing phlegm.
Leucophlegmacy :: Leucophlegmacy (n.) A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca; paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats..
Hydrotic :: Hydrotic (a.) Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.
Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
Hawk :: Hawk (n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise..
Phlegmatic :: Phlegmatic (a.) Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person..
Phlegmatic :: Phlegmatic (a.) Watery.
Expectorate :: Expectorate (v. t.) To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth..
Temper :: Temper (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy..
Phlegm :: Phlegm (a.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor..
Apophlegmatic :: Apophlegmatic (a.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils.
Hawk :: Hawk (v. t.) To raise by hawking, as phlegm..
Dephlegmating :: Dephlegmating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dephlegmat.
Dephlegmatory :: Dephlegmatory (a.) Pertaining to, or producing, dephlegmation..
Phlegmagogue :: Phlegmagogue (n.) A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
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