Expectoration
(eks-pek-tor-a' -shun) (ex, out; pectus, breast). 1. The ejection from the mouth of material brought into it from the air-passages. 2. The fluid or semifluid matters from the lungs and air-passages expelled by coughing and spitting. E., Prune- juice, a sputum containing altered blood expectorated in gangrene and cancer of the lung and in grave pneumonias in the aged. E., Rusty. See Sputum, Rusty.
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