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Phlegm meaning
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. | Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. | A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution.
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Too much phlegm in the body, for example, caused lung problems; and the body tried to cough up the phlegm to restore a balance.
Medical experts have listed a sore throat, runny or blocked nose, cough (with or without phlegm), and headaches as typical features of the new strain.
Doctors typically test for the condition using a chest X-ray, and they use either a urine test or phlegm sample to discover if the pneumonia is caused by legionella.
His condition worsened 18 months later when Light told a nurse he was coughing up "discoloured phlegm" and was losing weight.
If you’re suffering from asthma, allergies, or a viral infection, you could find yourself coughing up white phlegm.
For now, I imagine my brothers’ lungs, each of their two billowy sacs rich in oxygenated blood fighting to make its way into the spongy alveoli where the virus has established a beachhead of phlegm and fluid that must be expunged.
It is better to cough up phlegm than to have it stay lower in your lungs.
Shouty arguments about VAR can break out; the phlegm starts to fly; the virus spreads.
Thin bachelor men smoked in doorways, hacking vigorously and spewing wads of phlegm on the sidewalk.
This can be a dry cough or patients might produce phlegm.
Anyone may experience burning eyes, a runny nose, cough, phlegm, wheezing and difficulty breathing.
My elementary school bus driver was a pipe smoker and he would spit his brown phlegm on the floorboards and smoosh it around.
In no other way could they account for this exaggerated phlegm.
It dissolves phlegm and also helps to remove it from your respiratory tract.
It helps in the removal of catarrhal matter and phlegm from the bronchial tubes.
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Your nostrils are black, you know that’s pathway to your lungs, your cough out phlegm and it’s black, surfaces black, your feet black…….
Your throat develops phlegm and forms sweat of your brow, and hands.
Above this is a whitish layer of white blood cells (the "phlegm").
An imbalance of each humor corresponded with a particular human temperament (blood—sanguine, black bile—melancholic, yellow bile—choleric, and phlegm—phlegmatic).