phlegm
痰,痰液,痰盂,咳嗽
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Definitions
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- : the thick mucus secreted in the respiratory passages and discharged through the mouth, especially that occurring in the lungs and throat passages, as during a cold.
- : one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing sluggishness or apathy.
- : sluggishness, indifference, or apathy.
- : self-possession, calmness, or composure.
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Examples
In a world of physicians who thought you only needed to balance your humors in order to be well, Santorio wanted to know exactly how much phlegm was going into the equation.
I was never sure whether this was phlegm or the onset of lunacy.
There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
So after my father died I wrote a book, Fathers and Sons, with the intention of casting the Wavian phlegm out of my system.
The music and dancing are as dull as might be expected among beings so full of phlegm.
The Schoolmaster held his own horse and Lass, startled out of her peaceful phlegm by the terrifying roar and heat.
It is occasioned by the corruption of the meat, and the corruption of phlegm with a choleric humour.
Sometimes it happeneth by reason of the shrinking of certain sinews which go to the tongue, which are corrupted with phlegm.
It proceeds from a weakness of the spirits, or because warmth of digestion cause phlegm to abound in them.