expuition

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noun

The act of spitting phlegm.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounexpuition (plural expuitions)

plural expuitions

  1. obsoleteThe act of spitting phlegm.

    […] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.

    1823, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, volume 1, page 380
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