sputum
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That’s sputum, the mucus found deep in the airways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It's meant to break up sputum, but kids under two can't spit it out, so the mucus can be aspirated into the lungs, causing pneumonia - yet it is still prescribed."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
After 28 days, respiratory symptoms of cough, wheeze, breathlessness and sputum were found to be better with benralizumab.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
She said she was concerned because Tammy Daybell was just 49 and also had quite a bit of foamy pink sputum coming from her mouth.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
Said tell him Mr. Blakeslee was having a bad chill and he’d coughed up some dark, rusty sputum.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
Fourteen years anterior to the researches of Koch, Hering, Swan and Biegler availed themselves, as a homœopathic remedy, of the maceration of tuberculous lungs, and of the sputa of tuberculous subjects.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Following this case, Dr. Jousset quoted two analogous instances in his practice, both of influential bronchitis, in which the sputa contained, for a certain period, Koch's bacillus.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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
If the lung is injured the sputa will be bloody, and the appearance of such a condition should be at once reported.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger
Tappeiner55 succeeded in producing pulmonary tuberculosis, with or without general tuberculosis, in dogs, by compelling them to breathe air in which were contained minute particles of sputa from tuberculous pulmonary cavities.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
