sputum

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Avicenna also observed plaster-like material in tuberculosis patients 'sputum, which is now known as lithoptysis (stone spitting), where a patient coughs up calcified material due to perforated bronchial lymph node.

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  1. noun Matter coughed up and usually ejected from the mouth, including saliva, foreign material, and substances such as mucus or phlegm, from the respiratory tract.

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  • Whenever Donnie seemed to be having difficulty after coughing up sputum, she made him breathe from the bottle. —  Asimov's Science Fiction [2001.04]
  • The sputum which he brings up is livid black, foetid and full of carbon; it smells beyond measure. —  TheChildrenof
  • This method, called sputum-smear microscopy, was developed well over a century ago. —  Doctors Without Borders
  • This might allow caregivers to determine a patient's resistance patterns, but the method comes with all the problems associated with culture described above: it relies on sputum samples, so the technique is of limited use to those unable to produce sputum or with extra-pulmonary TB. —  Doctors Without Borders
  • The Seeplex MTB ACE Detection detects both extra-pulmonary and pulmonary TB from various specimens, such as sputum, body fluid, bronchial washing, urine, stool, CSF, and bone marrow aspiration. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
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  1. Latin spūtum, from neuter past participle of spuere, to spit.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin sputum, that which is spit out, spittle, from spuere, past participle sputus, spit: see spew.
 

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