sputum in English

noun

1

a mixture of saliva and mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract, typically as a result of infection or other disease and often examined microscopically to aid medical diagnosis.

Children may contract enterovirus by direct contact with saliva, sputum or nasal mucus from infected persons.

noun

phlegm

Use "sputum" in a sentence

1. Sputum

2. Three sputum specimens should be collected (or gastric aspirates in children too young to produce sputum).

3. CT, sputum, two venograms.

4. She's coughing up white sputum.

5. During # sputum samples were examined

6. Device and method for inducing sputum

7. Method of early lung cancer detection via sputum induction and analysis of sputum to detect cancer associated substances

8. If this sputum specimen is AFB-negative on smear, two successive early morning sputum specimens should be obtained.

9. Sputum of chronic bronchitic patients was examined by rotoviscometry.

10. Viable bacteria in the sputum of the source case.

11. Almost all experience fever, while around half have cough with sputum, and one-third cough up blood or bloody sputum.

12. 5. Collection of an induced sputum specimen 6.

13. Sputum dissolving suctioning solution for endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes

14. Product and process for liquefaction of mucus or sputum

15. • Increased sputum production, often with change in character from mucoid to purulent

16. Culture of sputum, pleural fluid and blood grewA. xylosoxidans.

17. Serum and sputum concentrations of ampicillin or amoxycillin were measured in patients admitted to hospital for acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis with purulent sputum.

18. The differentiated need for a microbiological sputum screening is emphasized.

19. He began to expectorate small amounts of blood - streaked sputum.

20. Retention of sputum is a serious complication following major abdominal or thoracic surgery.

21. Histamine injected in similar concentrations as that measured in the sputum causes bronchoconstriction.

22. In cases with negative sputum smears bronchoscopy should be performed.

23. A microbiological diagnosis from blood or sputum is difficult to establish.

24. • Cough; initially dry, later productive of white, yellow or green sputum

25. Eosinophilic leukocytes are common in gonorrheal pus and in Asthmatic sputum

26. Positive sputum culture or non-quantitative LRT specimen culture (PN 4)

27. These DNA strands contribute considerably to the viscosity of CF sputum.

28. These precautions should be maintained until three consecutive sputum smears are negative.

29. The ciprofloxacin concentration in the sputum consists of # % of the serum concentration

30. Permanent yellow or greenish sputum decoloration is suggestive of chronic bacterial colonization.

31. Red blood cells also accumulate, giving the sputum a characteristic “rusty” appearance.

32. The tracheal aspirate provided a better basis for the bacteriological diagnosis than did sputum cultures.

33. A quantitative sputum culture is recommended for diagnosing chronic obstructive bronchopulmonary disease.

34. Sputum expelled with air from your ice lung will come out frozen

35. Office workers have less prevalence of cough and sputum production than industrial workers.

36. First, our population was limited to patients with sputum-smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.

37. The most common symptoms of Bronchiectasis include: a persistent cough that usually brings up phlegm (sputum)

38. Samples are obtained by the use of a specially-designed sputum collector or ’probang’.

39. If the test is positive ("sputum smear positive"), the case is considered highly infectious.

40. Evidence of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) at microscopic examination of spontaneous or induced sputum

41. Bronchorrhea is the production of more than 100 mL per day of watery sputum.

42. For such patients, if facilities for culture are available, sputum cultures should be obtained.

43. Samples are obtained by the use of a specially-designed sputum collector or ‘probang’.

44. COUGH AND SPUTUM PRODUCTION – – – – – – – – Acute bronchitis Pneumonia Asthma TB COPD Bronchiectasis Lung abscess Lung cancer

45. Instant image availability reduces waiting time and speeds up sputum analysis and access to treatment.

46. Specimen Aspirate of buboes, blood, CSF, sputum, tracheal washes or autopsy materials for culture C

47. And MRI, sputum and ACE ruled out TB, sarcoidosis and lymphoma, which leaves us with...

48. This one's a specimen of his sputum, and here's one of the bullets Kleber recovered.

49. Today’s standard TB detection method, examining sputum under a microscope, was developed over a century ago.

50. I'm gonna want you to plant a PPD and induce a sputum to confirm the TB.