sputum
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That’s sputum, the mucus found deep in the airways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It also delivered results in less than four hours for urine, pus, and sputum samples, and within one day for blood samples.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
A sign at the entrance to the clinic announces the other major health problem: "sputum sampling" for tuberculosis or TB.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2023
They’ve also helped health clinics in Africa diagnose people with tuberculosis, detecting the bacteria in the sputum samples of 25,000 patients.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Miss Love looked at the sputum he spat into a rag.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Hallier found in the blood and sputa numbers of free cocci, which fructified upon various substrata, but was invariably the same fungus—mucor mucedo verus, Fres.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
I should here remark that I had in examining the sputa of this patient sent to me, found some of the ague plants.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
The symptoms of this were well marked, viz: a chill followed by fever, cough, brick-dust sputa, delirium, pain over lower half of right lung, which was solidified, and afterward gave the crepitant and sub-crepitant roles.
From Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society by Joseph Bradford Cox
Dolan obtained similar results by injecting the nasal secretions, and also by compelling rabbits to inhale air impregnated with decomposing sputa and vomit of patients suffering with the disease.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
