hemoptysis

[ hi-mop-tuh-sis ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hemoptysis¹

1640–50; < New Latin, equivalent to hemo- hemo- + Greek ptýsis spitting; compare ptýein to spit

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.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Occasionally the period just preceding a hemoptysis or during a hemoptysis may show hypertension in a patient whose usual condition is that of hypotension.

From Project Gutenberg

In some few instances hemoptysis has preceded convalescence, as has also a bleeding from the hemorrhoidal veins.

From Project Gutenberg