Hemoptysis: Definition and part of speech

Hemoptysis

  1. n. The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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