Definition of phlegm in English:

phlegm

noun flɛmflɛm

mass noun

1The thick viscous substance secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages, especially when produced in excessive quantities during a cold.
痰，黏痰
Example sentencesExamples
- You've probably seen - and heard - them in the gym: people sniffling, sneezing, coughing up phlegm.
- COPD (similar to chronic bronchitis) is a disease which narrows the airways, causing excessive amounts of phlegm to be produced and causes shortness of breath in its later stages.
- Several respiratory symptoms among plywood workers have been found, including cough, phlegm, asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chest colds.
- Our purpose was to identify the following major symptoms of chronic respiratory airways diseases: chronic cough, chronic phlegm, dyspnea, and wheezing.
- You may begin with a dry cough, then produce phlegm as the cold progresses.
- Wheeze is just one of a constellation of common respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and shortness of breath.
- As a result, they can't cough out phlegm and sometimes develop respiratory infections that can quickly become serious.
- When they are irritated they narrow, the muscles around them tighten, and there may be an increase in production of sticky mucus or phlegm.
- Acute bronchitis is a clinical diagnosis designating an acute respiratory tract infection in which cough, with or without phlegm, is a predominant feature.
- The remedy has a particularly potent curative effect on chronic bronchitis, coughs, and asthma due to excessive phlegm.
- However, susceptibility to respiratory morbidity varies among smokers and chronic cough and phlegm production and other respiratory-related morbidity occur in nonsmokers.
- In a comparison of a low-pollution rural and a high-pollution urban area in Italy, the residents of the latter had a greater prevalence of respiratory symptoms, except chronic phlegm.
- A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
- A coughing fit brought up some more thick phlegm.
- This herb should not be used by those with wind cold conditions such as the common cold when there is phlegm nor should it be used when there is Spleen deficiency with diarrhea.
- Drinking lots of fluids, especially water will help to reduce phlegm and mucus.
- If the disease progresses and cavities form in the lungs, the person may experience coughing and the production of saliva, mucus, or phlegm that may contain blood.
- Production of phlegm, shortness of breath, and wheezing were significantly more prevalent in exposed than in reference subjects.
- Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze.
- During this time, active smoking decreased, particularly in men, as well as slightly did the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, such as phlegm and cough.
Synonyms
mucus, catarrh, mucous secretion
1. 1.1 (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, believed to be associated with a calm, stolid, or apathetic temperament.
  （中世纪科学和医学用语）黏液（四种体液之一，据信与冷静或缺乏热情的性格有关）
  Example sentencesExamples
  An example is the belief, originating in classical times, that disease is caused by an imbalance among four bodily humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
  According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water.
  According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy; and pathological conditions are the result of humoral abnormalities.
  Illness, according to Galen, was caused by an imbalance of the body's four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
2. 1.2 Calmness of temperament.
  冷静；沉着；镇定
  phlegm and determination carried them through many difficult situations
  沉着和坚决使他们渡过了许多难关。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Phlegm (taken in a good sense) is the temperament of cold reflection and perseverance in the pursuit of one's end.
  Immigrants living among people from the same country in a kind of ghetto therefore have no incentive to overcome their phlegm and finally learn German.
  Synonyms
  self-control, calmness, calm, coolness, composure, sangfroid, level-headedness
  equanimity, serenity, tranquillity, placidity, placidness, impassivity, self-possession, self-confidence, self-assurance, stolidity, stolidness, imperturbability, impassiveness, dispassionateness
  informal cool, unflappability

Derivatives

phlegmy

adjective ˈflɛmiˈflɛmi

Geoffrey Rush, playing the villainous, pop-eyed seadog Barbossa in this enjoyable romp, gives it his best shot, a phlegmy gargle of rage.
Example sentencesExamples
- Rustling papers, shifting chairs, and phlegmy throats soon wove a tapestry of irritating background noise that climaxed with one broken neck and one unhappy man - to the hilarity of all, I might add.
- He was feeling a little phlegmy and just wanted to spit.
- He sounded phlegmy on some low notes - not necessarily the lowest, and he seemed to be straining for the high notes.
- Callum's had a yucky, phlegmy cough for 4 weeks now.

Origin

Middle English fleem, fleume, from Old French fleume, from late Latin phlegma 'clammy moisture (of the body)', from Greek phlegma 'inflammation', from phlegein 'to burn'. The spelling change in the 16th century was due to association with the Latin and Greek.

Rhymes

ahem, Belém, Clem, condemn, contemn, crème de la crème, em, gem, hem, Jem, LibDem, pro tem, rem, Shem, stem, them

Definition of phlegm in US English:

phlegm

nounflemflɛm

1The thick viscous substance secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages, especially when produced in excessive or abnormal quantities, e.g., when someone is suffering from a cold.
痰，黏痰
Example sentencesExamples
- Several respiratory symptoms among plywood workers have been found, including cough, phlegm, asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chest colds.
- If the disease progresses and cavities form in the lungs, the person may experience coughing and the production of saliva, mucus, or phlegm that may contain blood.
- However, susceptibility to respiratory morbidity varies among smokers and chronic cough and phlegm production and other respiratory-related morbidity occur in nonsmokers.
- Wheeze is just one of a constellation of common respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and shortness of breath.
- Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze.
- As a result, they can't cough out phlegm and sometimes develop respiratory infections that can quickly become serious.
- This herb should not be used by those with wind cold conditions such as the common cold when there is phlegm nor should it be used when there is Spleen deficiency with diarrhea.
- You may begin with a dry cough, then produce phlegm as the cold progresses.
- A coughing fit brought up some more thick phlegm.
- In a comparison of a low-pollution rural and a high-pollution urban area in Italy, the residents of the latter had a greater prevalence of respiratory symptoms, except chronic phlegm.
- The remedy has a particularly potent curative effect on chronic bronchitis, coughs, and asthma due to excessive phlegm.
- During this time, active smoking decreased, particularly in men, as well as slightly did the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, such as phlegm and cough.
- You've probably seen - and heard - them in the gym: people sniffling, sneezing, coughing up phlegm.
- Acute bronchitis is a clinical diagnosis designating an acute respiratory tract infection in which cough, with or without phlegm, is a predominant feature.
- Drinking lots of fluids, especially water will help to reduce phlegm and mucus.
- When they are irritated they narrow, the muscles around them tighten, and there may be an increase in production of sticky mucus or phlegm.
- A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body.
- Our purpose was to identify the following major symptoms of chronic respiratory airways diseases: chronic cough, chronic phlegm, dyspnea, and wheezing.
- Production of phlegm, shortness of breath, and wheezing were significantly more prevalent in exposed than in reference subjects.
- COPD (similar to chronic bronchitis) is a disease which narrows the airways, causing excessive amounts of phlegm to be produced and causes shortness of breath in its later stages.
Synonyms
mucus, catarrh, mucous secretion
1. 1.1 (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humors, believed to be associated with a calm, stolid, or apathetic temperament.
  （中世纪科学和医学用语）黏液（四种体液之一，据信与冷静或缺乏热情的性格有关）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Illness, according to Galen, was caused by an imbalance of the body's four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
  According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water.
  An example is the belief, originating in classical times, that disease is caused by an imbalance among four bodily humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
  According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy; and pathological conditions are the result of humoral abnormalities.
2. 1.2 Calmness of temperament.
  冷静；沉着；镇定
  phlegm and determination carried them through many difficult situations
  沉着和坚决使他们渡过了许多难关。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Immigrants living among people from the same country in a kind of ghetto therefore have no incentive to overcome their phlegm and finally learn German.
  Phlegm (taken in a good sense) is the temperament of cold reflection and perseverance in the pursuit of one's end.
  Synonyms
  self-control, calmness, calm, coolness, composure, sangfroid, level-headedness

Origin

Middle English fleem, fleume, from Old French fleume, from late Latin phlegma ‘clammy moisture (of the body)’, from Greek phlegma ‘inflammation’, from phlegein ‘to burn’. The spelling change in the 16th century was due to association with the Latin and Greek.

单词	phlegm
释义	Definition of phlegm in English: phlegm noun flɛmflɛm mass noun 1The thick viscous substance secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages, especially when produced in excessive quantities during a cold. 痰，黏痰 Example sentencesExamples You've probably seen - and heard - them in the gym: people sniffling, sneezing, coughing up phlegm. COPD (similar to chronic bronchitis) is a disease which narrows the airways, causing excessive amounts of phlegm to be produced and causes shortness of breath in its later stages. Several respiratory symptoms among plywood workers have been found, including cough, phlegm, asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chest colds. Our purpose was to identify the following major symptoms of chronic respiratory airways diseases: chronic cough, chronic phlegm, dyspnea, and wheezing. You may begin with a dry cough, then produce phlegm as the cold progresses. Wheeze is just one of a constellation of common respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and shortness of breath. As a result, they can't cough out phlegm and sometimes develop respiratory infections that can quickly become serious. When they are irritated they narrow, the muscles around them tighten, and there may be an increase in production of sticky mucus or phlegm. Acute bronchitis is a clinical diagnosis designating an acute respiratory tract infection in which cough, with or without phlegm, is a predominant feature. The remedy has a particularly potent curative effect on chronic bronchitis, coughs, and asthma due to excessive phlegm. However, susceptibility to respiratory morbidity varies among smokers and chronic cough and phlegm production and other respiratory-related morbidity occur in nonsmokers. In a comparison of a low-pollution rural and a high-pollution urban area in Italy, the residents of the latter had a greater prevalence of respiratory symptoms, except chronic phlegm. A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body. A coughing fit brought up some more thick phlegm. This herb should not be used by those with wind cold conditions such as the common cold when there is phlegm nor should it be used when there is Spleen deficiency with diarrhea. Drinking lots of fluids, especially water will help to reduce phlegm and mucus. If the disease progresses and cavities form in the lungs, the person may experience coughing and the production of saliva, mucus, or phlegm that may contain blood. Production of phlegm, shortness of breath, and wheezing were significantly more prevalent in exposed than in reference subjects. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze. During this time, active smoking decreased, particularly in men, as well as slightly did the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, such as phlegm and cough. Synonyms mucus, catarrh, mucous secretion 1.1 (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, believed to be associated with a calm, stolid, or apathetic temperament. （中世纪科学和医学用语）黏液（四种体液之一，据信与冷静或缺乏热情的性格有关） Example sentencesExamples An example is the belief, originating in classical times, that disease is caused by an imbalance among four bodily humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water. According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy; and pathological conditions are the result of humoral abnormalities. Illness, according to Galen, was caused by an imbalance of the body's four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. 1.2 Calmness of temperament. 冷静；沉着；镇定 phlegm and determination carried them through many difficult situations 沉着和坚决使他们渡过了许多难关。 Example sentencesExamples Phlegm (taken in a good sense) is the temperament of cold reflection and perseverance in the pursuit of one's end. Immigrants living among people from the same country in a kind of ghetto therefore have no incentive to overcome their phlegm and finally learn German. Synonyms self-control, calmness, calm, coolness, composure, sangfroid, level-headedness equanimity, serenity, tranquillity, placidity, placidness, impassivity, self-possession, self-confidence, self-assurance, stolidity, stolidness, imperturbability, impassiveness, dispassionateness informal cool, unflappability Derivatives phlegmy adjective ˈflɛmiˈflɛmi Geoffrey Rush, playing the villainous, pop-eyed seadog Barbossa in this enjoyable romp, gives it his best shot, a phlegmy gargle of rage. Example sentencesExamples Rustling papers, shifting chairs, and phlegmy throats soon wove a tapestry of irritating background noise that climaxed with one broken neck and one unhappy man - to the hilarity of all, I might add. He was feeling a little phlegmy and just wanted to spit. He sounded phlegmy on some low notes - not necessarily the lowest, and he seemed to be straining for the high notes. Callum's had a yucky, phlegmy cough for 4 weeks now. Origin Middle English fleem, fleume, from Old French fleume, from late Latin phlegma 'clammy moisture (of the body)', from Greek phlegma 'inflammation', from phlegein 'to burn'. The spelling change in the 16th century was due to association with the Latin and Greek. Rhymes ahem, Belém, Clem, condemn, contemn, crème de la crème, em, gem, hem, Jem, LibDem, pro tem, rem, Shem, stem, them Definition of phlegm in US English: phlegm nounflemflɛm 1The thick viscous substance secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages, especially when produced in excessive or abnormal quantities, e.g., when someone is suffering from a cold. 痰，黏痰 Example sentencesExamples Several respiratory symptoms among plywood workers have been found, including cough, phlegm, asthma, chronic bronchitis, and chest colds. If the disease progresses and cavities form in the lungs, the person may experience coughing and the production of saliva, mucus, or phlegm that may contain blood. However, susceptibility to respiratory morbidity varies among smokers and chronic cough and phlegm production and other respiratory-related morbidity occur in nonsmokers. Wheeze is just one of a constellation of common respiratory symptoms, including cough, phlegm, and shortness of breath. Children exposed to secondhand smoke are also more likely to have reduced lung function and symptoms of respiratory irritation like cough, excess phlegm, and wheeze. As a result, they can't cough out phlegm and sometimes develop respiratory infections that can quickly become serious. This herb should not be used by those with wind cold conditions such as the common cold when there is phlegm nor should it be used when there is Spleen deficiency with diarrhea. You may begin with a dry cough, then produce phlegm as the cold progresses. A coughing fit brought up some more thick phlegm. In a comparison of a low-pollution rural and a high-pollution urban area in Italy, the residents of the latter had a greater prevalence of respiratory symptoms, except chronic phlegm. The remedy has a particularly potent curative effect on chronic bronchitis, coughs, and asthma due to excessive phlegm. During this time, active smoking decreased, particularly in men, as well as slightly did the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, such as phlegm and cough. You've probably seen - and heard - them in the gym: people sniffling, sneezing, coughing up phlegm. Acute bronchitis is a clinical diagnosis designating an acute respiratory tract infection in which cough, with or without phlegm, is a predominant feature. Drinking lots of fluids, especially water will help to reduce phlegm and mucus. When they are irritated they narrow, the muscles around them tighten, and there may be an increase in production of sticky mucus or phlegm. A cough is a reflex action to clear the airways of mucus, phlegm, irritants or a foreign body. Our purpose was to identify the following major symptoms of chronic respiratory airways diseases: chronic cough, chronic phlegm, dyspnea, and wheezing. Production of phlegm, shortness of breath, and wheezing were significantly more prevalent in exposed than in reference subjects. COPD (similar to chronic bronchitis) is a disease which narrows the airways, causing excessive amounts of phlegm to be produced and causes shortness of breath in its later stages. Synonyms mucus, catarrh, mucous secretion 1.1 (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humors, believed to be associated with a calm, stolid, or apathetic temperament. （中世纪科学和医学用语）黏液（四种体液之一，据信与冷静或缺乏热情的性格有关） Example sentencesExamples Illness, according to Galen, was caused by an imbalance of the body's four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water. An example is the belief, originating in classical times, that disease is caused by an imbalance among four bodily humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. According to humoral theory, the body comprised of the four humours blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy; and pathological conditions are the result of humoral abnormalities. 1.2 Calmness of temperament. 冷静；沉着；镇定 phlegm and determination carried them through many difficult situations 沉着和坚决使他们渡过了许多难关。 Example sentencesExamples Immigrants living among people from the same country in a kind of ghetto therefore have no incentive to overcome their phlegm and finally learn German. Phlegm (taken in a good sense) is the temperament of cold reflection and perseverance in the pursuit of one's end. Synonyms self-control, calmness, calm, coolness, composure, sangfroid, level-headedness Origin Middle English fleem, fleume, from Old French fleume, from late Latin phlegma ‘clammy moisture (of the body)’, from Greek phlegma ‘inflammation’, from phlegein ‘to burn’. The spelling change in the 16th century was due to association with the Latin and Greek.
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