Expectorants

Word EXPECTORANTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Expectorants"

What do we mean by expectorants?

An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.

Hocking a lugie, spitting mucus and saliva out of your mouth Urban Dictionary

Medical term for expulsion of phlegm, tobacco juice, and excess saliva (spit). At one time, practiced mostly by those who chewed tobacco or those who were diseased. Now practiced by the majority of men before they use a urinal, when getting out of their car, or when leaving a building, for unknown reasons. Urban Dictionary

A title used to mock the classic novel 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens (Expectoration meaning "the process of coughing up and spitting out" or "the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)"). Urban Dictionary

Yet another term for seminal fluid, semen, or cum. Urban Dictionary

Refers to the hoped-for level of lung-declogging performance that you have when first taking medicines containing camphor, eucalyptus, and/or menthol. Urban Dictionary

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The word "expectorants" in example sentences

And once they hurled their vile rants and expectorants ... yes, one frenzied protester even spat on an African-American Congressman ... they became irrelevant to the health care debate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

OTC cough and cold products include decongestants, expectorants, antihistamines, and antitussives ❋ Unknown (2008)

Apart from that, my diet has generally been antibiotics, antihistaminics, expectorants and mucolytics. ❋ Unknown (2008)

See also coughs; decongestants; expectorants cold sores fever blisters, 136, 184, 185, 188 ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)

Before turning to decongestants, expectorants, or antihistamines to cure your cold, there are actually a number of simple home treatments that can be of great help in your recovery: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The whole point of this post was to offer a roundup at an incongruous time and here I am going into a needless segue about clocks and expectorants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A key FDA advisory panel is now recommending children under six years old should not take common cold medicine, especially those over the counter and that includes medicines containing antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Allergy and cold products also contain dextromethorphan, pseudoephedrine, and other nasal decongestants, antihistamines, and expectorants. ❋ Kerron Cross (2006)

The American College of Chest Physicians says nonprescription cough suppressants and expectorants do little to relieve coughs caused by colds. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This has a smooth, gliding quality and indicates fluid retention or phlegm and is treated with expectorants or diuretics. ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

Some expectorants might be yerba santa, grindelia, or mullein, whereas diuretics would include parsley, buchu, uva ursi, and corn silk. ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)

Two weeks of antibiotics, expectorants and an inhaler. ❋ Cordeliameg (2000)

There are other medicines, called cough-helpers (or expectorants), that are supposed to make it easier to cough up the mucus. ❋ Unknown (1993)

All medical treatment having been given up, except mere palliatives, such as blisters and expectorants, this poor man lingered out a most miserable existence from his pectoral symptoms, and particularly from palpitation of heart. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)

The remedies resorted to were blisters, bleeding (at an early stage), expectorants, and tonics, which, to a certain degree, relieved the more urgent symptoms. ❋ Archibald Makellar (N/A)

I'm [especially] [good] at expectorating. ❋ UIO000 (2006)

if you expect to [rate] as a [gentleman], please don't expectorate [on the floor]. ❋ Freddy Ferno (2010)

"Damn! [Mrs]. [Mitchell's] making us [read] chapters 1-7 of Great Expectorations tonight!" ❋ Anonymous (2005)

Babe, if you keep [sucking my dick], [I think I'm] going to shoot my testicular expectorant [in your mouth]. ❋ Jambo Schlarbeard (2006)

Most over-the-counter congestion-relieving products are of fairly mild [potency], so you should not have very high expectorations about them. Extended use of these meds, however, often can indeed help "[loosen] things up" in your [respiratory system]. ❋ QuacksO (2020)

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