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
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
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
Miss Love looked at the sputum he spat into a rag.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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.
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
I saw you take the sputa of a ague patient and demonstrate the spores and sporangia of the Gemiasma verdans. 3d.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and even lung muscle.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still
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
