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What does expectoration mean?

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Noun
  1. (physiology) The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
  2. (physiology) That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
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Maybe that smashed window in the corporate box was actually the result of a disturbed football supporter who was watching Eddie pontificating on the subject of expectoration.
There is nothing new or unnatural in this repression, this tabu on expectoration.
Inhalation of hypertonic saline can be used to obtain sputum from most nonexpectorating patients, and provides a larger volume than achieved by spontaneous expectoration.
It was precision expectoration that accurately landed a deposit of froth about two feet from my Oxford brogues.
The police authorities of New York appear now to be thoroughly in earnest in carrying out the municipal enactments forbidding expectoration in public places.
They were provided with a plastic container and asked to provide 2 ml of saliva by expectoration.

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