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Definitions
Mucus and fluid coughed up from the lungs or airways.
Word origin
From New Latin, from Latin sputum (“that which is spit out, spittle”), from spuere (“to spit”).
Used in a sentence
“In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.”
“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.”
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