expectorant

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English

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Etymology

From expectorate +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

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Translations

Adjective

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

See also

Catalan

Verb

expectorant

  1. gerund of expectorar

French

Pronunciation

Participle

expectorant

  1. present participle of expectorer

Adjective

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

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

Noun

expectorant m (plural expectorants)

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

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French expectorant.

Adjective

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

  1. expectorant

Declension

Declension of expectorant
singular plural
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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