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sputa

sputa is the plural of sputum.

Meaning of sputum

Noun

sputum (countable and uncountable, plural sputums or sputa)

  1. Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.
    • In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.2018, Louis Rosenfeld, Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry

Questions about sputa

What is sputa the plural of?
Sputa is the plural of sputum.

Words near sputa in the dictionary

  1. spurwings
  2. spurwort
  3. SPUs
  4. SPUSA
  5. sput
  6. sputa
  7. sputation
  8. sputative
  9. sputcheon
  10. sputcheons
  11. sputnik

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