˜yÐÄvlog

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hemoptysis

[ hi-mop-tuh-sis ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hemoptysis1

1640–50; < New Latin, equivalent to hemo- hemo- + Greek ±è³Ùý²õ¾±²õ spitting; compare ±è³Ùý±ð¾±²Ô to spit
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Example Sentences

A disease like that could account for all the man’s symptoms — the thick-looking walls, the overflow into the lungs, the strange EKG, the shortness of breath, even the hemoptysis.

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Because tuberculosis could cause such holes as well as hemoptysis, he was in an isolation room until the doctors were sure he didn’t have it.

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Andral, however, is decidedly of opinion that hemoptysis is one of the exciting causes, and, in domestic animals, I believe it to precede tubercle more frequently than is generally imagined.

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Occasionally the period just preceding a hemoptysis or during a hemoptysis may show hypertension in a patient whose usual condition is that of hypotension.

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In some few instances hemoptysis has preceded convalescence, as has also a bleeding from the hemorrhoidal veins.

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