phlegm

[US]/flem/
[UK]/flɛm/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. mucus; viscous substance; viscid fluid.

Phrases & Collocations

Coughing up phlegm

Thick phlegm

Example Sentences

a phlegm temperament

His throat congested with phlegm.

phlegm and determination carried them through many difficult situations.

In the second stage, the blood stasis owing to qi-stagnation, the cementation of phlegm and stasis, the liver-fire changed by conge...

It is restorative, stomachic, moistening the lung and eliminating phlegm, nourish and adjust breath, detumescence, stanch and galactopoiesis, good to throad and cure malaria.

M ethods to divide our hospital's lunger of recent years who have difficul t and p ositive phlegm smear phthisic into two groups(check group and cure group) and pr ocess random analysis.

Introduced professor Wang Lining's experience on treating children cough due to exopathy in phlegm-dampness constitution by using Erchen Decoction,and took one case for example.

Real-world Examples

Do you bring up phlegm or is it a dry cough?

Source: Doctor-Patient Conversation in English

You need to spit out the phlegm and not swallow it.

Source: American Family Universal Parent-Child English

I just need to change his I.V. and suction his phlegm.

Source: Canadian drama "Saving Hope" Season 1

I bring up quite a bit of phlegm. I'm afraid I might have asthma.

Source: Doctor-Patient Conversation in English

Sondra had a burbly, uneven voice, as if she were always speaking through a throatful of tightly packed phlegm.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

Here, try spitting up a little phlegm.

Source: Young Sheldon Season 3 _ Warm and Funny Family Comedy

The sharp rattle of phlegm sounded in Doctor Copeland's throat.

Source: The heart is a lonely hunter.

The phthisis had a phobia about phlegm.

Source: Pan Pan

' But in about three minutes she coughed up the phlegm and began to get better right away.

Source: Anne of Green Gables (Original Version)

These humours were bodily fluids - blood,  phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Yum!

Source: A Minimalist History of Britain

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