Phlegm in a sentence as a noun

Ll is a letter - [phlegm production noise].

He has vomited 3 times and there is phlegm in the vomitus.

I have an issue which may or may not be a sinus issue:I have phlegm in my throat, constantly.

If I don't do that, the phlegm dries in place and I end up with a restricted airway and difficulty breathing.

Right now, I could be posting pictures of the horrific amount of phlegm I'm coughing up while I recover from the flu.

I see no reason to believe that isn't also a form of drainage from infection, similar to phlegm build up in the lungs.

If this happens, I generally interpret it as phlegm being dislodged from a place where my coughing wasn't getting it before.

They are drowning in phlegm because they underproduce healthy mucus and become highly infected.

3 unique doctor visits to the room + 1 IV + phlegm sample + 1 $60 pill + 1 prescription = $4200 for 50 minutes of office and 120 minutes of wait.

Whilst the individual little virii can get through one, they're usually not found airbourne on their own; aren't they in big globs of snot and phlegm and the like?

So if you come down with a respiratory infection, a placebo might have you saying you feel better a bit sooner, but you'll still be hacking up phlegm for just as long.

LA is an interesting city in so many ways, but it reminds me of an old smoker with emphasema... except instead of phlegm it's coughing up cars... drowning in cars.

After reading tourist books about how Japanese people think it's rude to blow your nose in public... it is slightly disconcerting to visit and see a guy hawk up some phlegm and spit it on the street.

One study I ran across indicated that it was not excess mucus clogging up the lungs of people with CF, it was phlegm -- ie infection -- and that, in fact, people with CF produce too little mucus, not too much.

When I lived in Beijing I actually contemplated blogging daily photos of the phlegm I coughed up every morning due to the smog, and try and correlate them with daily air quality index readings.

Most of "feeling sick" isn't the actual bacteria/virus causing problems, it's your immune system doing things like raising your internal temperature to fight off the virus or generating boatloads of phlegm to do whatever that does.

This is in stark contrast to usual hypochondria surrounding most diseases; where a person will be quick to diagnose themselves with [X cargo-cult symptom-matching thing-they-don't-understand] to explain why their neck always aches or they keep coughing up yellow phlegm, people are wary of assigning themselves mood disorders, since most people feel that society will still consider them "guilty" in some way for having the problem ["you're just lazy" &c], and they definitely don't want to bring it out in the open to the point where they identify with it.

Phlegm definitions

noun

apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

See also: emotionlessness impassivity impassiveness indifference stolidity unemotionality

noun

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

See also: sputum

noun

inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends"

See also: languor lethargy sluggishness flatness