expectorant

expectorate +‎ -ant

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expectorant (plural expectorants)

1. (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 […]

• mucolytic
• secretolytic
• mucokinetic
• mucoregulator

• expectoration

expectorant (not comparable)

1. (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

expectorant

1. gerund of expectorar

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spɛk.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/

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expectorant

1. present participle of expectorer

expectorant (feminine expectorante, masculine plural expectorants, feminine plural expectorantes)

1. expectorant (causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm)

expectorant m (plural expectorants)

1. expectorant (agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs)

• “expectorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French expectorant.

expectorant m or n (feminine singular expectorantă, masculine plural expectoranți, feminine and neuter plural expectorante)

1. expectorant