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
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.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 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
The back of the throat and the lining of the windpipe may also slough off, and the dead tissue slides down the windpipe into the lungs or is coughed up with sputum.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
He noted the temperature; rate and other qualities of the pulse; looked at the tongue and sputa.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman
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.
When it was renewed, blood again appeared in the sputa.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
They bear some resemblance to Leptothrix buccalis, the spores of which are often found in whooping-cough sputa.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
There is no report of the full development found in the urine, sputa, and sweat.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various
