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.

noun. Spittle; a salival discharge from the mouth.

noun. In pathology, that which is expectorated or ejected from the lungs: used also in the plural, in designation of the individual masses.

noun. That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

noun. Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.

noun. expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness

"But Andrew Speaker here has, over the last three days, has undergone a series of what they call sputum tests, which essentially requires him to drink salt water and then cough into a tube and then take samples from inside that tube and look for that TB infection."

globular sputa  rusty sputa  sputum coctum  sputum crudum  æruginous sputa  

mucous secretion  mucus  

cappuccino  chondrite  drool  excrement  expectoration  

saliva  spittle  

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