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productive cough

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productive cough [prə′dək·tiv ′kȯf]
(medicine)
A cough accompanied by expectoration.


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Cough medicines for productive coughs are not suppressants but expectorants, which help loosen the mucus trapped in the respiratory tract and prevent the lungs form getting infected.
2) Unsurprisingly, cigarette smoking has a dose-related influence on the prevalence of productive cough.
Although most patients present with hemoptysis or productive cough, aspergillomas might be discovered incidentally on radiographs as in our case.
 
 
 
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