expectorator

A noun referring to a person who expels saliva or phlegm from the mouth, or a medicinal agent that promotes the expulsion of mucus from the respiratory tract.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa a una persona que expulsa saliva o flema de la boca, o bien un medicamento que favorece la expulsión de moco de las vías respiratorias.

1. Person who spits C2 formal medical

   A person who ejects saliva, phlegm, or mucus from the mouth.

   • The doctor advised the patient not to be a public expectorator.
   • In some cultures, being an expectorator in public is considered rude.
   • The old man was a habitual expectorator due to his lung condition.

   🇪🇸Persona que escupe

   Sinónimos: spitter

2. Expectorant medicine C2 formal medical

   A medicinal substance that helps to clear phlegm from the respiratory tract by promoting coughing.

   • The pharmacist recommended an expectorator for the patient's cough.
   • This expectorator is effective in loosening chest congestion.
   • Many cough syrups contain an expectorator to help clear the airways.

   🇪🇸Expectorante

   Sinónimos: expectorant

• expectorators plural form
• expectorators' possessive plural form
• expectorator's possessive singular form