sputum

(spu’tum) [L.]. Matter ejected from the mouth; saliva mixed with buccal or nasal mucus. In lung diseases it contains mucopus and other disease products from the lungs; in bronchial, laryngeal, pharyngeal. or tonsillar disease it may be purulent, watery, fibrinous, putrid, or bloody. 8. srogino’sum, green expectoration. albuminoid s., a yellowish, frothy sputum of Persons from whom large amounts of pleural fluid ave been withdrawn: believed to be due to pul- monary edema. s. coc’tum, the opaque mucopus of the later stages of bronchitis and laryngitis. 8. cru’dum, the clear, tenacious mucus of the early stages of laryngitis and bronchitis. 8. cruen’tum, bloody sputum. egg-yolk s., sputum of a bright-vellow color, as in some cases of jaundice. globular s., sputum in yellow, spheric lumps: characteristic of the last stages of tuberculosis. green 8., sputum stained with a green pigment, as in certain cases of jaundice. icteric 8., sputum stained with a greenish or yellow tint by bile-pigments, as in jaundice. nummular 8., sputum in rounded disks, shaped somewhat like coins. prunme-juice s., dark. reddish-brown, bloody sputum of certain forms of pneumonia, cancer of the lung, gangrene, etc. rusty 8., sputum stained with blood or blood-picments; se seen in pneumonia, etc. 8. septicemia. See septicemia.