Expectorate in a Sentence ?
- When the baby has eaten too much, she will occasionally expectorate some of her food.
- The doctor will use a tube to expectorate the foreign object from the patient's mouth.
- If Jack wants to feel better, he needs to expectorate the mucus from his lungs.
What does expectorate after use mean?
? Post-College Level. verb (used without object), ex·pec·to·rat·ed, ex·pec·to·rat·ing. to eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting; spit.
What is the medical term for coughing up phlegm?
Looking for a fancy way to say "cough up phlegm"? Try expectorate. There's no way around it — expectorating is pretty gross. If you have a respiratory problem like bronchitis, you're going to expectorate a lot: phlegm and mucus will build up in your lungs, and you'll eventually cough it up and spit it out.
