hemoptysis

American  

[hi-mop-tuh-sis] / hɪˈmɒp tə sɪs /

noun

Pathology.

1. the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.

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Etymology

Origin of hemoptysis

1640–50; < New Latin, equivalent to hemo- hemo- + Greek ptýsis spitting; compare ptýein to spit

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hemoptysis

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.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

Laryngeal Foreign Body.—One or more of the following laryngeal symptoms may be present: Hoarseness, croupy cough, aphonia, odynphagia, hemoptysis, wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, apnea, subjective sensation of foreign body.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

The saliva was not even blood-streaked; therefore, it can be said with verity that there was no hemoptysis.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Ninety-seven of these patients had hemorrhages somewhere, most frequently epistaxes, sometimes hemoptysis.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

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

From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John