HEMOPTYSIS (hemoptyses)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: hemoptyses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does hemoptysis mean? 

• HEMOPTYSIS (noun)
  The noun HEMOPTYSIS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HEMOPTYSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEMOPTYSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

haemoptysis; hemoptysis

Hypernyms ("hemoptysis" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

 Context examples 

If clinical symptoms are present they include shortness of breath, cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, and fever.

(Lung Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical symptoms include cough, hemoptysis, chest pain, progressive dyspnea and fever secondary to recurrent pneumonia.

(Lung Sarcomatoid Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include dysphagia, hemoptysis, and the presence of a neck mass.

(Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)