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hemoptysis

[hi-mop-tuh-sis]

noun

Pathology.
  1. the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of hemoptysis1

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

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