(a.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.
(n.) An expectorant medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluidification of sputum with reduction in certain measurements of the viscosity of morning sputum aliquots, associated with improvement in the ability to cough up bronchial secretions, significant increase in sputum volume output, and improvement in ventilation (as estimated by the forced expiratory volume in one second), were observed in both trials as dose-related responses, with an increase in the ease of expectoration and a reduction in cough frequency and dyspnea.
(2) Lidocaine recovered in expectorant ranged from 96 to 168 mg.
(3) From the above findings, it is indicated that distinct evaluation of the mucolytic actions of expectorants is feasible using porcine gastric mucin.
(4) Then, eta' and G' of saliva, bronchorrhoea and mucoid sputum samples were measured between 2 to 4 hours after expectoration.
(5) At the end of the tests the development of the most significative symptomatologic parameters has been analysed according to the Wilcoxon test: quantity, kind and characteristics of nasal secretions, nasal obstruction, phlogosis of the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa, hoarseness, difficulty in catarrhal expectoration, hypoacusia, retraction of the tympanic membrane.
(6) In two patients, expectorated casts initially were thought to be aspirated food material.
(7) It is advisable that microdoses of thyroidine may be included into the multimodality treatment of patients afflicted with acute pneumonia and iodine-containing expectorants excluded from it.
(8) Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is the reference diagnostic method, but induced expectoration may be the initial examination, in which case BAL is performed only when the latter fails or gives negative results.
(9) Immunotypes 2, 5, 6 and 7 did not vary significantly as far as frequency in the various sources is concerned, with the exception of immunotype 2, which was significantly less frequent in isolates from the expectorated sputum.
(10) Methanol extracts of hydrolyzed expectorate samples from workers in a Söderberg potroom were evaluated by the Salmonella reversion assay.
(11) Respiratory symptoms (coughs with expectoration) were reported by 24 of the 25 cases.
(12) The patients receiving the active treatment showed a statistically and clinically significant improvement of respiratory parameters (cough intensity, sputum quantity, sputum quality, expectoration difficulty).
(13) It is based on the rate of oxygen consumption of oral expectorates of milk.
(14) The symptoms in order of decreasing frequency were cough, weight loss, expectoration, anorexia, chest pain, dyspnea, weakness, hemoptysis, pneumonia, fever, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and chills.
(15) All patients, undergoing antineoplastic chemotherapy because of acute leukemia, presented with fever and expectoration, which were resistant to various antibiotic regimes.
(16) Cough with or without expectoration (98%) and fever (95%) were the commonest symptoms followed by breathlessness (85%) and chest pain (83%).
(17) Transtracheal aspiration is not deemed necessary if the patient is expectorating fetid sputum.
(18) Chronic obstructive bronchitis is defined as persistent diffuse airways obstruction frequently associated with chronic expectoration.
(19) Thirty-four patients, 21 male and 13 female, with chronic asthma and tenacious mucoid expectoration were studied regarding clinical parameters, PEF, airway resistance and sputum viscosity measured according to the n.m.r.
(20) Ten subjects classified as Ia (simple bronchoconstriction type) by clinical diagnosis were divided into 6 cases with expectoration of less than 49 ml a day and 4 cases with expectoration of between 50 and 99 ml.
Phlegm
Definition:
(a.) One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
(a.) Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
(a.) A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
(a.) Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
Example Sentences:
(1) These dyspnea complaints often presented themselves as isolated symptoms, without chronic cough or phlegm production.
(2) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.
(3) In multiple logistic models, accounting for independent effects of age, smoking, pack-years, parents' smoking, socio-economic status, body mass index, significantly increased odds ratios were found in males for the associations of: bottled gas for cooking with cough (1.66) and dyspnoea (1.81); stove for heating with cough (1.44) and phlegm (1.39); stove fuelled by natural gas and fan or stove fuelled other than by natural gas with cough (1.54 and 1.66).
(4) When dyspnea was associated with cough and phlegm production there was on the contrary a statistically significant relation with the spirometric values and the effect of acetylcholine.
(5) The joint effect of smoking and phlegm as well as that of smoking and wheezing was close to being multiplicative.
(6) Of the 509 patients who reported cough, phlegm, wheeze, or shortness of breath, 324 responded to a detailed questionnaire, 256 of whom had simple respiratory function assessed.
(7) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
(8) Among current smokers, a trend toward higher sIL-2R levels (not statistically significant) was observed among subjects reporting symptoms of phlegm production.
(9) In all, 20% of the flax scutchers were found, on the basis of the questionnaire, to suffer from persistent cough and 25% from chronic phlegm production.
(10) The standardized questionnaire was filled in by the industrial physicians: occupational history, smoking habits, respiratory symptoms (cough, phlegm, dyspnea, asthma), irritative complaints of the upper airways (nasal fossae and sinuses, pharynx and larynx) were all recorded.
(11) Among women, FEV1 failure was significantly associated with moderate breathlessness, chronic phlegm, wheeze, and asthma with odds ratios of 1.55, 1.45, 1.62, and 1.95, respectively.
(12) reported in the initial survey and 5 years later) to dusts doubled the odds for the appearance of chronic phlegm and attacks of breathlessness in all men, and of chronic bronchitis in men aged 41 to 50, initially free of the symptom.
(13) It is concluded that the development of chronic cough, chronic phlegm and chronic bronchitis in asbestos workers is likely to be an unspecific effect of the exposure to the difficulty soluble airborne particles rather than a specific effect of the exposure to airborne asbestos fibres.
(14) After adjustment for intensity and duration of smoking and for depth of inhalation, the risk of chronic phlegm, cough, and dyspnea were not related to the tar and nicotine yields.
(15) Chronic phlegm production is not significantly associated with CVD mortality, and 'chronic bronchitis' is significantly associated with mortality only in the employed populations.
(16) The prevalence of lower respiratory symptoms (any cough, phlegm, wheeze, or wheeze with dyspnea) was increased among those reporting dampness or mold compared with those not reporting dampness or mold as follows: 38 versus 27% among current smokers, 21 versus 14% among exsmokers, and 19 versus 11% among nonsmokers (all p values less than 0.001).
(17) Smoking was a more important risk factor than age, sex or social class, and was associated particularly with wheeze, morning phlegm and chest tightness on waking.
(18) In the control group, the prevalence of chronic cough and phlegm was only 6.6% in each category.
(19) Among 98 asbestos-exposed subjects who had normal chest X-rays, there was an increase in the prevalence of breathlessness grade 2, cough during the day, and phlegm when coughing.
(20) The differences persisted when children with cough with phlegm, asthma, wheeze, inhalant allergies, or hospitalization before age 2 for a chest illness were excluded from analysis.