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n. Thick, sticky, stringy mucus secreted by the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract, as during a cold or other respiratory infection.

n. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, thought to cause sluggishness, apathy, and evenness of temper.

n. Sluggishness of temperament.

n. Calm self-possession; equanimity.

n. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See humor.

n. Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

n. A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor.

n. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness.

n. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed.

n. In old chemistry, the aqueous, insipid, and in odorous products obtained by subjecting moist vegetable matter to the action of heat.

n. A thick viscid matter secreted in the digestive and respiratory passages, and discharged by coughing or vomiting; bronchial mucus.

n. Dullness; sluggishness; indifference; coolness; apathy; calm self-restraint.

n. Synonyms Insensibility, Impassibility, etc. See apathy.

n. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

n. expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness

n. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy

"He is coughing up phlegm from a sickness he is certain arrived with all the recent stress of divorce and debt, and now he doesn't walk so much as wobble his way into one of the closets upstairs, where he happens upon some painful, wonderful memories he keeps sealed in a plastic cup."

apathy    mucous secretion    mucus    inertia    inactiveness    inactivity   

phlegmy    phlegmatic   

humor   

dullness    indifference    coldness   

Am    Clem    Em    Fm    Gem    Jem    M    M.    Pm    Rem   

spittle    mucus    snot    bile    excrement    chyle    choler    sputum    urine    verjuice