- 1痰（醫學用語；日常講話台灣人就說「痰」，醫院裡的「痰液檢體」就是 sputum sample）
Sputum is the thick wet stuff that comes up from deep inside your lungs and throat when you cough hard. It is not ordinary spit from your mouth — spit is thin and watery and always there; sputum comes up from below, and usually only when you are ill. This is a medical word. Doctors and nurses use it; ordinary people say phlegm, or just say "the stuff I cough up". If you go to a hospital with a bad chest, they may ask you for "a sputum sample" — they want you to cough some into a small cup so they can test it and see what kind of infection you have. Doctors care about its colour and thickness, because clear, yellow, green, or blood-streaked sputum each suggest something different. It has no plural in normal use; you say "some sputum", not "two sputums".
組成From Latin sputum "that which is spat out", from the verb spuere "to spit".
同家族的字
- spitnot from Latin, but an old English word that sounds like the action — the resemblance is real but the two lines are separate
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sputumnoun/ˈspjutəm/
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medicinepulmonologysciencesMatter 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.
- At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the boy’s sputum sat for a month, waiting for its turn in a slow process of antibody-matching analysis.
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