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sputums

sputums 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 sputums

What is sputums the plural of?
Sputums is the plural of sputum.

Words near sputums in the dictionary

  1. sputterings
  2. sputters
  3. sputters out
  4. sputtery
  5. sputum
  6. sputums
  7. Spuyten Duyvil
  8. SPV
  9. SPVM
  10. SPVS
  11. SPVSes

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