Sentence examples for sputum from inspiring English sources

Everything in it is cloudy: the milky fluids sold by Mr Medlicott, the chemist; spirit ectoplasm, copper sulphate, sputum, tubercular X-rays.

Several versions with different resolutions have been developed that allow the technology to be used for different things.The academic group is developing versions of the CellScope that can be used for retinal scans or to detect pathogens, such as malaria and tuberculosis, by analysing images of slides smeared with samples of blood or sputum.

The standard method of diagnosis is a microscopic hunt in a sample of sputum for the bacteria that cause the disease.

Those involve the laborious process of "tuberculin-testing" with injections of a mixture of tuberculosis proteins, followed by chest X-rays and finally the isolation of the guilty bacteria from a patient's sputum.

Its essence is the meticulous recording of each event in a patient's treatment, from diagnosis (usually by sputum test, not X-ray) to the administration of many pills and eventually to confirmation of cure.

Researchers collected sputum, the polite word for coughed-up mucus, then shipped it to the CDC to test the bacteria's response to drugs.

The diagnosis of melioidosis is established by the isolation of Pseudomonas pseudomallei in the sputum, blood, urine, or pus.

Characteristic symptoms of allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, seen especially in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases, include a chronic, productive cough and purulent sputum occasionally tinged with blood and flecks of white or brownish mycelium (fungus material).

Oxygen exchange in the alveoli is impaired, causing such functional toxic responses as breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing with sputum.

Acute melioidosis, which can be fatal, is characterized by fever, chills, cough, bloody and purulent sputum, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.

Haemophilus influenzae is a microorganism named for its occurrence in the sputum of patients with influenza an occurrence so common that it was at one time thought to be the cause of the disease.