phlegm in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

phlegm in the PONS Dictionary

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Phlegm is a secretion in the airway during disease and inflammation.
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Water, is cold and moist, related closely to phlegm: people with more phlegmatic personalities were passive and submissive.
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This phlegm grows as a result of smoking "mapacho" and drinking ayahuasca.
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It transforms phlegm and alleviates coughing, thus used in treating bronchitis.
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Above this is a whitish layer of white blood cells (the phlegm, now called the buffy coat).
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The author explains these phenomena by the flux of the phlegm flowing from the brain into the veins rather than assigning them a divine origin.
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Long endured procedures where tubes were put down his throat to suction black phlegm from his lungs at the hospital.
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Magically, the patients who were suffering from spleen and stomach problems, coughing phlegm, or with sore throats and ulcers were cured from this medicine.
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The phlegm was then blown out of the nose.
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Phlegmatic means pertaining to phlegm, corresponds to the season of winter (wet and cold), and connotes the element of water.
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