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hemoptysis
[ hi-mop-tuh-sis ]
noun
- the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
Word History and Origins
Origin of hemoptysis1
Example Sentences
A disease like that could account for all the man’s symptoms — the thick-looking walls, the overflow into the lungs, the strange EKG, the shortness of breath, even the hemoptysis.
Because tuberculosis could cause such holes as well as hemoptysis, he was in an isolation room until the doctors were sure he didn’t have it.
Andral, however, is decidedly of opinion that hemoptysis is one of the exciting causes, and, in domestic animals, I believe it to precede tubercle more frequently than is generally imagined.
Occasionally the period just preceding a hemoptysis or during a hemoptysis may show hypertension in a patient whose usual condition is that of hypotension.
In some few instances hemoptysis has preceded convalescence, as has also a bleeding from the hemorrhoidal veins.
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