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(medicine, now only historical) Phlegm; mucus. quotations
Pituita, or phlegm, is a cold and moist humour, begotten of the colder part of the chylus […]
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps