PHLEGM
\flˈɛm], \flˈɛm], \f_l_ˈɛ_m]\
Definitions of PHLEGM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
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Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
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A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
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Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
By Oddity Software
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One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
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Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
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A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.
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Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The thick, slimy matter secreted in the throat, and discharged by coughing: sluggishness: indifference.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One of the four natural humours of the ancients, which, according to them, was cold and moist, as atrabilis was cold and dry. It predominated, especially, in winter. Pituita was afterwards applied to every aqueous or excrementitious humour, such as the saliva, nasal and intestinal mucus, serum, &c. The terms phlegm and pituita are no longer used in physiology, - the different humours having received particular names; but the vulgar still use phlegm to designate a stringy mucus, expectorated, or rejected by vomiting. The ancient chymists gave the name ‘phlegm’ to aqueous, insipid, and inodorous products obtained by subjecting moist vegetable matters to the action of heat.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Greek] One of the four humours of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed;—the tenacious mucus of the respiratory and digestive passages; water; watery matter;—humour; temperament;—dullness; coldness; sluggishness; indifference.