Meaning of Sputum | Babel Free
ˈspjutəmDefinitions
Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
countable, uncountable
Equivalents
Examples
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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