EXPECTORANT
\ɛkspˈɛktəɹənt], \ɛkspˈɛktəɹənt], \ɛ_k_s_p_ˈɛ_k_t_ə_ɹ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of EXPECTORANT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.
By Oddity Software
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Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.
By Noah Webster.
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A medicine that promotes expectoration, or spitting.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Promoting secretion from the mucous membrane of the air-passages or facilitating its expulsion. 2. An agent which increases bronchial secretion and facilitates its expulsion.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Medicine causing additional bronchial mucous secretion.
By William R. Warner
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Tending to promote expectoration.
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A medicine which promotes expectoration.
By Daniel Lyons
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A medicine which promotes expectoration.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Promoting expectoration.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A medicine that promotes discharges from the lungs.
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That promotes the secretion of mucus in the lungs or air-passages.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A medicine capable of facilitating or provoking expectoration. There is probably no such thing as a direct expectorant. They all act through the system, or by impressions made on parts at a distance, which, through the medium of general, continuous, or contiguous sympathy, excite the secretory vessels of the air-passages into action. The following are the chief reputed expectorants :-Ammoniacum; Asafoetida; Galbanum; Ipecacuanha; Myroxylon; Myrrha; Inhalations of Iodine, Stramonium, Tar, Burning Wool, Tobacco, &c.; Scilla; Senega, and Tolutanum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
