📚 noun • entry_id 26335
sputum
Meanings (ES + gloss)
escupitajo • esputo • gargajo • lapo
Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the boy’s sputum sat for a month, waiting for its turn in a slow process of antibody-matching analysis.
In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.
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