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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



... my consulting room on the forty-sixth day, about 2.15 P.M., the pulse was 64, temp. 95.6 degrees (thermometer 3 minutes under tongue). He was much troubled with a nasty expectoration of mucus. His breath was very offensive. No enlarged glands could be felt in either groin—perhaps a trifling enlargement in the right. In middle of front border of right tibia a little irregularity ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... it (let us say) that Mme. Andre Macarte's apartment was looted by six burglars, who descended via the fire-escape and bore away a ruby tiara valued at two thousand dollars and a five-hundred-dollar prize Spitz dog, which (in violation of the expectoration ordinance) was making free with the halls of the ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry


Words linked to "Expectoration" :   spit, forcing out, projection, activity, spitting, ejection, expulsion, bodily process, expectorate, bodily function, body process


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