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sputum

noun as in saliva

noun as in spit

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After 28 days, respiratory symptoms of cough, wheeze, breathlessness and sputum were found to be better with benralizumab.

Trump’s incoming communication staff has a reputation for saying anything that favors the boss – which means a lot of feckless, fact-less, vile sputum parading as facts.

From Salon

It also delivered results in less than four hours for urine, pus, and sputum samples, and within one day for blood samples.

In this study, experts engineered a living material resembling natural sputum, or phlegm, from CF patients that can grow 3D polymicrobial biofilms in a controlled manner, resembling those found in the CF lung.

A sign at the entrance to the clinic announces the other major health problem: "sputum sampling" for tuberculosis or TB.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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