expuition

English

Noun

expuition (plural expuitions)

1. (obsolete) The act of spiting phlegm.
   • 1823, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine‎^[1], volume 1, page 380:

     […] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.