sputum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
    — In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.

词形变化

sputums plural sputa plural

词源

From New Latin, from Latin sputum (“that which is spit out, spittle”), from spuere (“to spit”).
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