See Also: pseudohemoptysis(medicine)

Birmingham (iou) and pseudohemoptysis (medicine)


Birmingham (iou)



Birmingham noun & adjective. Also Brummagem & Other local vars. L17.
[A town (now a city) in central England, with ref. to the counterfeit coins etc. once made there.]
English History. (Designating) a supporter of the 1680 Exclusion Bill, (a) Whig. Cf. ANTI-BIRMINGHAM.

pseudohemoptysis (medicine)


pseudohemoptysis
Spitting of blood that does not come from the lungs or bronchial tubes.

Origin: pseudo-+ G. Haima, blood, + ptysis, a spitting