apophlegmatic

Apophlegmatic

Ap`o*phleg*mat"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; ? from + ? full of phlegm. See Phlegmatic.] (Med.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n. An apophlegmatic medicine.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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