sputum
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That’s sputum, the mucus found deep in the airways.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The team were able to achieve this by combining peptides with a culture medium that is known to recreate natural sputum and which can be easily infected.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
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
Toward the end of the day, more bedpans, the emptying of sputum mugs, the making of cocoa.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Expectoration is often absent in these cases; where it exists the sputa are either mucous or muco-purulent.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
He noted the temperature; rate and other qualities of the pulse; looked at the tongue and sputa.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman
About 7th January, 1869.—Cannot walk: Pneumonia of right lung, and I cough all day and all night: sputa rust of iron and bloody: distressing weakness.
The germ of pulmonary consumption, known as the bacillus tuberculosis, is contained in the breath and the sputa from the lungs of its victims.
From A Practical Physiology by Albert F. Blaisdell
