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phlegm
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phlegm (flem) viscid mucus excreted in abnormally large quantities from the respiratory tract.
phlegm (flm)
n.
1. Thick, sticky, stringy mucus secreted by the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, as during a cold or other respiratory infection.
2. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause sluggishness, apathy, and evenness of temper.
phlegmy adj.
Phlegm
Another word for sputum; material coughed up from a person's airways.
Mentioned in: Expectorants, Isolation
phlegm
[flem]
Etymology: Gk, phlegma, mucus, sluggishness
thick mucus secreted by the tissues lining the airways of the lungs.
phlegm [flem]
viscid mucus excreted in abnormally large quantities from the respiratory tract.
phlegm (flemˑ),
n heavy mucus that originates in the lungs and mucous membranes of the nose and throat.
phlegm
viscid mucus excreted in abnormally large quantities from the respiratory tract.
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Procedures had to avoid destructive calcination (distillation until dry), a common procedure in organic chemistry for centuries, because it yielded much the same complex mixtures of poorly characterized degradation products and weighed as fractions of gas, oil, phlegma, and residue from everything studied.
Justus Liebig and Animal Chemistry by Rosenfeld, Louis / Clinical Chemistry
Awarding merit to emotions the less "arbitrary and coercive" they are leads to a conclusion which "may appear odd": "the absence of emotion (apatheia, phlegma in significatu bono), when found in a mood that adheres emphatically and insistently to its principles, cannot only be sublime but most admirably so" (Kant 132-33, trans, de Man, quoted in AI 125).
Pathos (Allegories of Reading) by TERADA, REI / Studies in Romanticism
 
 
 
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