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expectorants

expectorants is the plural of expectorant.

Meaning of expectorant

Noun

expectorant (plural expectorants)

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

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Questions about expectorants

What is expectorants the plural of?
Expectorants is the plural of expectorant.

Words near expectorants in the dictionary

  1. expectings
  2. expection
  3. expections
  4. expective
  5. expectorant
  6. expectorants
  7. expectorate
  8. expectorated
  9. expectorates
  10. expectorating
  11. expectoration

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