expectorant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.

   “The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.”

2. sıfat Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.

   “an expectorant preparation”