A historical explanatory system in which health and disease depend on the mixture and balance of bodily fluids. The four-fluid scheme includes blood, humoral phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These categories are not a modern analysis of blood composition. [ref]
A bodily fluid considered within humorism; historical claims about its balance must be distinguished from current physiology.
One of the four fluids in classical humorism, distinct within that theory from yellow bile. Its historical category should not be treated as a demonstrated normal modern bodily fluid.
The cold fluid category called phlegm in historical humorism. It should not be equated without qualification with a present-day specimen of respiratory mucus.

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