sputum

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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

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

But were these tree bubbles — or tree sputum, as I came to call them — actually insect eggs?

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

Toward the end of the day, more bedpans, the emptying of sputum mugs, the making of cocoa.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan