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
Miss Love looked at the sputum he spat into a rag.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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