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Saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages
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sputum
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sputum ['spju.təm] is mucus and is the name used for the coughed-up material ( phlegm ) from the lower airways (trachea and bronchi). This process is known as sputilization. In medicine, sputum samples are usually used for naked eye exam, microbiological ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm ] [also: sputa (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sputum \Spu"tum\ (sp[=u]"t[u^]m), n.; pl. Sputa (-t[.a]). [L., from spuere, sputum, to spit.] That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Latin sputum, noun use of neuter past participle of spuere "to spit" (see spew (v.)).
Usage examples of sputum.
This is a measure which tends to control the spread of a good many diseases besides measles, because during coughing and sneezing sputum may be thrown several feet.
Dicken saw that he had isolated a recombined variety of unencapsulated RNA virus from the blood and sputum of all the afflicted children, in titers sufficient to suggest massive infection.
We also took sputum samples and blood samples, and we did bacteriological tests on all of them.
The patient was cultured "stem to stern," meaning that samples of blood, urine, stool, sputum, and spinal fluid were sent for bacteriologic analysis.
He had been born in a town very distant from the sea, and he had set foot on a ship only at an advanced age, when—he said—his body was nothing but a withering of the cutis, a dimming of the sight, a besnotting of the nose, a whispering of the ears, a yellowing of the teeth, a stiffening of the spine, a wattling of the throat, a gouting of the heels, a spotting of the complection, a whitening of the locks, a creaking of the tibias, a trembling of the fingers, a stumbling of the feet, and his breast was all one purging of catarrhs amid the coughing of phlegm and the spitting of sputum.
More to it than that: inside the equipment-laden cart, the chrome assemblage he'd pushed up to the elevator doors, was a ten milliliter jar filled with red sputum that he'd just suctioned out of the doped-up patient's bronchial tubes.
Look out for bloody stool, urinary retention, lumps in the throat, sputum flecked with blood, discharges from the nipple, lumps in the armpit.