You could break into a sweat when your room feels warm or you've piled on too many blankets. But that's not what we're talking about. "Night sweats" refers to repeated drenching perspiration in the middle of the night that's likely to wake you, and sometimes so much that you need...
from Phlegmon to Inflatio, by their humoral cause.35 Unusually, his discussion of tumours also dwelt upon internal tumours and the difficulty of their detection; in which scenario any clues offered by the patient's humoral complexion were particularly valuable.36 Writers discussing cancer tended to...
If you cough and bring up mucus or phlegm, that's called a productive or wet cough. If you don't bring up anything, that's called a dry cough. "Cough is a reflex that can be normal but can also signify a disease process," says Dr. Julie Lyou, a pulmonologist with St. Jude Med...