Material coughed up from the lungs and expectorated via the mouth. It contains MUCUS, cellular debris, and microorganisms. It may also contain blood or pus.
    

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A challenge : Bisolvon meets, at mucous gland level, the challenge of the thick, tenacious, non-purulent sputum so characteristic of the chronic bronchitic.

Sputum : its microscopy and diagnostic and prognostic significations / by Francis Troup.

A colour atlas of sputum cytology : the early diagnosis of lung cancer / Gordon Canti.

Bacteria of the sputa and cryptogamic flora of the mouth / trans. by E.J. Stutter and E, Saieghi [and others].

Dogs, dirt & disease.

Charcot-Leyden crystals and Curschmann spirals in asthmatic sputum / Alex Sakula.

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Sputum : its microscopy and diagnostic and prognostic significations / by Francis Troup.

A colour atlas of sputum cytology : the early diagnosis of lung cancer / Gordon Canti.

Bacteria of the sputa and cryptogamic flora of the mouth / trans. by E.J. Stutter and E, Saieghi [and others].

Dogs, dirt & disease.

Charcot-Leyden crystals and Curschmann spirals in asthmatic sputum / Alex Sakula.