Definition of Hemoptysis

1. Noun. Coughing up blood from the respiratory tract; usually indicates a severe infection of the bronchi or lungs.

Exact synonyms: Haemoptysis
Generic synonyms: Symptom

Definition of Hemoptysis

1. n. The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.

Definition of Hemoptysis

1. Noun. (medicine) expectoration (coughing up) of blood ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemoptysis

1. [n -TYSES]

Medical Definition of Hemoptysis

1. The expectoration of blood or of blood stained sputum. Origin: Gr. Ptyein = to spit This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemoptysis

hemophilia A
hemophilia B
hemophiliacs
hemophilias
hemophilic
hemophilics
hemophobia
hemophobias
hemopoieses
hemopoiesis
hemopoietic
hemoprotein
hemoproteins
hemoptyses
hemoptysis (current term)
hemorheology
hemorrhage
hemorrhaged
hemorrhages
hemorrhagic
hemorrhagic cyst
hemorrhagic fever
hemorrhagic septicemia
hemorrhagic stroke
hemorrhagically
hemorrhaging
hemorrhoid
hemorrhoidal
hemorrhoidal vein

Literary usage of Hemoptysis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Active hyperemia causing hemoptysis is inflammatory in most cases. ... With pneumonia we have never seen hemoptysis sufficiently profuse to deplete the ..."

2. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"hemoptysis. hemoptysis.—Supplementary hemoptysis.—The Differential Diagnosis between the hemoptysis symptomatic of Pulmonary Phthisis and the hemoptysis of ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Jour., 1907, clvii, 211) considers the varied opinions as to the value of drugs in the treatment of hemoptysis. The ordinary routine treatment of rest, ice, ..."

4. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders, John Herr Musser (1917)
"(a) Pulmonary congestion from whatever source may result in hemoptysis, ... Of 5302 casos analyzed by the writer, hemoptysis was found in 19">0, ..."

5. Pulmonary tuberculosis by Maurice Fishberg (1922)
"CHAPTER X. hemoptysis. Frequency.—To the layman the most reliable symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis is blood-spitting and many physicians share this view, ..."

6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1866)
"There are many conditions which may give rise to hemoptysis.] A young lady, aged 18, recently arrived from a residence in one of the West India islands, ..."

7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1874)
"ON THE USE OF ERGOT OF EYE IS THE hemoptysis OF PHTHISIS. By Dr. FRANCIS E. ANSTIE, Senior Assistant Physician to Westminster Hospital, &c. ..."

8. Medical Review (1902)
"were not symptomatic of tuberculosis or heart disease. He thus distinguished hemoptysis, of bacillary origin, of cardiac origin, and essential hemoptysis. ..."

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