expectorant

expectorate +‎ -ant

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expectorant (plural expectorants)

1. (medicine) An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
   • 1833, R. J. Bertin, Charles W. Chauncy, transl., Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 165:

     The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.

• mucolytic
• secretolytic
• mucokinetic
• mucoregulator

• expectoration

expectorant (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.

   an expectorant preparation

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 84:

     ‘Matchett says there’s old Mr P. who made all the money with ’is cought mixture—’ ‘Not Parkinsons ex . . . something?’ asked Jessamy. ‘That’s it,’ nodded Sarah, ‘ “Hexpectorant Posset”.’

• expectorative

• expectorate

expectorant

1. present participle of expectorer

• “expectorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From French expectorant.

expectorant m or n (feminine singular expectorantă, masculine plural expectoranți, feminine and neuter plural expectorante)

1. expectorant