haemoptysisn.
/hiːˈmɒptɪsɪs//hɛˈmɒptɪsɪs/ Pathology.
Spitting of blood; expectoration of blood, or of bloody mucus, etc., from the lungs or bronchi.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > spitting blood
haemoptysis1646
haemoptoe1728
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. xi. 46 Julian for his hæmoptysis or spitting of bloud, was cured by hony and pine Nuts taken from his Altar.
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 317 Without..removing pneumonia, or even hæmoptysis.
1849 D. P. Thomson Introd. Meteorol. 20 Very subject to bronchial hæmoptysis.
Derivatives
haemoptysic adj. /hiːmə(ʊ)pˈtɪzɪk//hɛmə(ʊ)pˈtɪzɪk/ = haemoptysical adj.
/hiːmə(ʊ)pˈtɪzɪk//hɛmə(ʊ)pˈtɪzɪk/ = haemoptysical adj.ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > spitting blood
haemoptoic1684
haemoptysical1834
haemoptysic1886
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hæmoptysic.
haemopˈtysical adj. relating to or affected with hæmoptysis.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding > spitting blood
haemoptoic1684
haemoptysical1834
haemoptysic1886
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 173 The hæmoptysical engorgement..is only a lesser degree of the same affection.
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