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

Example Sentences

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

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 Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

This was confirmed subsequently by the absence of any evidences of hemoptysis during the whole period of convalescence.

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

Instances of vicarious and compensatory epistaxis and hemoptysis are so common that any examples would be superfluous.

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