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Definition of flegm in Turkish English dictionary
- (Tıp) phlegm
- One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus
Each person's unique mixture of these substances determines his temperament: a predominance of blood gives a sanguine temperament; a predominance of phlegm makes one phlegmatic; yellow bile, bilious (or choleric); and black bile, melancholic.
- Calmness of temperament, composure; also seen negatively, sluggishness, indifference
But Swedish Nazis also talked of the necessity of saving Sweden from Bolshevism, and with the menacing Berlin radio gnawing in their ears many Swedes lost their Scandinavian phlegm.
- {n} a watery humor of the body
- Thick mucous from the respiratory passage
- thick mucous secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory passages
- Phlegm is the thick yellowish substance that develops in your throat and at the back of your nose when you have a cold. = mucus
- Thick mucus, especially that from the respiratory passages (CMD 1997)
- thick mucus especially from the respitory tract
- may be a visible, sticky substance such as mucus or metaphorical to indicate a disorder that causes a reduction in the flow of qi
- Abnormal amounts of mucus; phlegm coughed up through the mouth is called sputum
- {i} moisture; mucus; slowness; apathy, indifference
- Thick mucous from the respiratory passages
- inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
- Phlegm arises from stagnation of the body fluids It can cause symptoms such as mucous in the Lungs, nodules on joints, kidney or gall stones and/or lumps under the skin If it blocks the Heart orifices it can cause some forms of mental illness
- Viscid mucus secreted in the respiratory and digestive passages
- Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages
- A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor
- expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness
- One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed
- Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness