Word Finder - phlegm

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One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus.

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Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing.

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A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution.

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Calmness of temperament, composure; also seen negatively, sluggishness, indifference.

According to this celebrated theory, the body contains four humours - blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile, a right proportion and mixture of which constitute health; improper proportions or irregular distribution, disease.

If the patient is coughing up phlegm, the cough should be allowed to continue.

As a result, your dog is able to bring up more phlegm when he coughs, and phlegm removal is essential to helping him feel better.

Add some Italian dressing for the phlegm.

Cough medicines may help either to control coughing or loosen the phlegm.

These bacteria can cause a reoccurring cough, which produces phlegm, often blood stained.

With a splitting headache they would reach the tunnel exit, gasp in the fresh air and usually vomit the black phlegm.

The black phlegm you hack up all morning, every day, doesn't scare you.

The concept of ' ordinary fortitude ' or ' customary phlegm ' is a difficult one.

Nettles are useful in ridding the lungs of excess phlegm and cleansing the body of toxins and make an ideal herbal cuppa.

Women from houses backing on to the premises took it all with typical British phlegm.

Children who smoke are more susceptible to coughs and increased phlegm, wheeziness and shortness of breath than those who do not smoke.

Tibetan medicine teaches that the body is ruled by three humors known as rLung, mKrhispa and Badkan, roughly translated in English as wind, bile and phlegm, respectively.

Does the vomit look like food, or mainly phlegm?

The steam actually helps the bronchial tubes open up as it simultaneously loosens the phlegm clogging your dog's airways.

It is said to break down fatty, mucous and phlegm deposits.

Sputum cytology involves the microscopic examination of phlegm that is coughed up from the lungs.

Expectorants are drugs that loosen and clear mucus and phlegm from the respiratory tract.

Coughing brings up a greenish yellow phlegm or sputum.

Another warning sign is a hacking cough, worse than the usual smoker's cough, that brings up phlegm or blood, a sign of lung cancer.

A productive, or chesty cough makes you feel like you want to bring up mucus or phlegm by coughing.

Symptoms progressively restrict a person's ability to breathe and include persistent coughing, wheezing, excessive production of phlegm and ongoing shortness of breath.

For if you give to a certain patient he says, medicine which draws phlegm, you will have him vomit phlegm.

Teenagers who smoke are less fit than their nonsmoking peers and more apt to experience shortness of breath, dizziness, coughing, and excess phlegm in their lungs.

Children may cough up clumps of sputum or phlegm, secretions produced in the alveoli during the infection or inflammatory condition.