Converse of object

• loosen: Cough medicines may help either to control coughing or loosen the phlegm.

• draw: For if you give to a certain patient he says, medicine which draws phlegm, you will have him vomit phlegm.

• produce: These bacteria can cause a reoccurring cough, which produces phlegm, often blood stained.

• vomit: With a splitting headache they would reach the tunnel exit, gasp in the fresh air and usually vomit the black phlegm.

• clear: Expectorant: Clears phlegm from the chest by inducing coughing.

• remove: Decongestant: Removes phlegm and mucous, especially from the respiratory system.

Adjective modifier

• green: Posted by la peregrina on 22 March, 2004 at 9:08 PM Rubbery green phlegm?

• black: The black phlegm you hack up all morning, every day, doesn't scare you.

• customary: The concept of ' ordinary fortitude ' or ' customary phlegm ' is a difficult one.

• excess: Nettles are useful in ridding the lungs of excess phlegm and cleansing the body of toxins and make an ideal herbal cuppa.

• British: Women from houses backing on to the premises took it all with typical British phlegm.

• increased: Children who smoke are more susceptible to coughs and increased phlegm, wheeziness and shortness of breath than those who do not smoke.

Modifies a noun

• production: There is good evidence that passive smoking affects the lungs of workers increasing cough, wheeze and phlegm production.

Preposition: in

• throat: After 2-3 days Less or no phlegm in the throat, fewer breathing difficulties.