expectorant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
expectorate + -ant
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
expectorant (plural expectorants)
- (medicine) An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
- 1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165:
- The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
- The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules […]
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Translations[edit]
agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs
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Adjective[edit]
expectorant (not comparable)
- (medicine) Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.
- an expectorant preparation
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:
- ‘Matchett says there’s old Mr P. who made all the money with ’is cought mixture—’ ‘Not Parkinsons ex . . . something?’ asked Jessamy. ‘That’s it,’ nodded Sarah, ‘ “Hexpectorant Posset”.’
- Synonym: expectorative
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Verb[edit]
expectorant
- gerund of expectorar
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
expectorant
Adjective[edit]
expectorant (feminine expectorante, masculine plural expectorants, feminine plural expectorantes)
- expectorant (causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm)
Noun[edit]
expectorant m (plural expectorants)
- expectorant (agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs)
Further reading[edit]
- “expectorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French expectorant.
Adjective[edit]
expectorant m or n (feminine singular expectorantă, masculine plural expectoranți, feminine and neuter plural expectorante)
Declension[edit]
Declension of expectorant
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | expectorant | expectorantă | expectoranți | expectorante | ||
definite | expectorantul | expectoranta | expectoranții | expectorantele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | expectorant | expectorante | expectoranți | expectorante | ||
definite | expectorantului | expectorantei | expectoranților | expectorantelor |
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