hemoptysis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hemoptysis
1640–50; < New Latin, equivalent to hemo- hemo- + Greek ptýsis spitting; compare ptýein to spit
Example Sentences
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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
Tulpius speaks of hemoptysis lasting chronically for thirty years, and there is a similar record of forty years' duration in the Ephemerides.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
This lesion not infrequently causes epistaxis, hemoptysis and hematemesis.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
The first symptoms of weakening of the compensation are irregularity in the beat and venous congestion of the head and face, causing bluing of the lips, often nosebleed, and sometimes hemoptysis and insomnia.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
He showed no signs of hemoptysis, and although in great pain, was able to give commands after reception of the wound.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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