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That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

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.

Saliva; spittle; spit.

1. Expectorated matter, especially mucus or mucopurulent matter expectorated in diseases of the air-passages. 2. An individual mass of such matter.

Stomal ejections.

Spittle; that which is expectorated.

In med., the matter discharged from the mouth in disorders of the breathing organs; spittle.

The secretions ejected from the mouth in the act of spitting. It is composed of saliva, and of the mucus secreted by the mucous membrane of the nasal fossae and fauces, and often by the membrane of the larynx and bronchia. The sputa are, sometimes, called eru'ginous, when of a greenish-yellow colour; gummy, when they resemble a thick solution of gum; frothy, (F.) mousseux, when covered with froth; rubiginous, (F.) rubigineux ou rouilles, when of a reddish-yellow; and streaked, (F.) stries, when mixed with lines of blood. Also, saliva.

Matter ejected from the mouth.

Pl. sputa. The inflammatory material from the respiratory tracts ejected from the mouth. It may be simply saliva, or saliva plus the mucous secretions of the air passages; or it may be more or less purulent or bloody.