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What (who) is expectorant - definition
AGENT THAT AIDS IN THE CLEARANCE OF MUCUS FROM THE AIRWAYS, LUNGS, BRONCHI, AND TRACHEA
Expectorant; Mucolytic; Expectorants; Mucomelt a; Mucolytic agent; Mucolytics; Mucokinetics
expectorant
(expectorants)
An expectorant is a cough medicine that helps you to cough up mucus from your lungs. (MEDICAL)
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Expectorant
·noun An expectorant medicine.
II. Expectorant ·adj Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, ·etc., from the lungs or throat.
expectorant
¦ noun a medicine which promotes the secretion of sputum by the air passages, used to treat coughs.
Wikipedia
Mucoactive agent
Mucoactive agents are a class of chemical agents that aid in the clearance of mucus or sputum from the upper and lower airways, including the lungs, bronchi, and trachea. Mucoactive drugs include expectorants, mucolytics, mucoregulators, and mucokinetics. These medications are used in the treatment of respiratory diseases that are complicated by the oversecretion or inspissation of mucus. These drugs can be further categorized by their mechanism of action.
Examples of use of expectorant
1. "Any mechanism that shoots a projectile through a smooth–bore barrel by way of an expectorant." He laughed.
2. Manufacturers of unapproved extended–release cough and cold drugs that contain an expectorant called guaifenesin have until Nov. 25 to stop shipping the medications, health officials said yesterday.
3. It was proved good for chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic enterocolitis, chronic bronchitis, arteriosclerosis, hypertension, arthritis and dermatosis as it has secretion–controlling in gastrointestinal tract, excitometabolic, expectorant, anti–inflammatory and blood–pressure lowering functions.
4. "In this case, the PVC pipe having a smooth bore, the potato being a projectile and the expectorant being the hairspray, I had to tell her they couldn‘t do it." Post a Comment Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site.
5. I will just about concede that there is a direct relationship between smoking and lung cancer (although not passive smoking and lung cancer) and that smoking makes you cough and that if you already have a cough and you do as I do and attempt to manfully step up your intake of cigarettes, then, in the end, blood will make an unexpected and unwelcome appearance in the expectorant.