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hemoptysis

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What does hemoptysis mean?

noun

  1. expectoration (coughing up) of blood from the respiratory system

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Tulpius speaks of hemoptysis lasting chronically for thirty years, and there is a similar record of forty years' duration in the Ephemerides.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747