I don't exactly know how to put this in scientific terms, but it is a wet cough which when completed, has brought up phlegm enough to fill a handkerchief. It is the last stage of a common cold before it goes away.
The most important thing the nurse should worry about, is if their patient will be able to breathe on there own, without suffocating.
<span>the reason for being male of female (sometime depending on social/cultural differences rather than biological ones)</span>
