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
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
As soon as the stomach and bowels became empty there was comfort all along the line, and the cough was so diminished, that less than an ounce of sputa was raised in twenty-four hours.
From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey
Examination of the sputa showed distinctly the presence of Koch's bacilli.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
If we analyze the sputa we find fibrin and even lung muscle.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still
This appearance of blood in their sputa was the cause of a great anxiety to them and made them hurry over to my office.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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