PHLEGM

Showing an unusual lack of energy

• Dull indifference

• Lump in one's throat?

• Physiological humor of old

• Sluggishness

• Smoker's excess

• Speaking block

• Spit it out

• Inactivity

• In ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness

• Expectorated matter

• Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions

• Saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages