I am coughing up sputum.
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Sputum
//ˈspjutəm//
Synonyms for "sputum" (13 found)
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33 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πτύσμα noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Armenian
1 entries- խորխ noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Bashkir
1 entries- ҡаҡырыҡ noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Bulgarian
1 entries- храчки noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Catalan
1 entries- esput noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Czech
2 entries- chrchel noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- sputum noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Finnish
1 entries- yskös noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Galician
2 entries- esgarro noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- lapo noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Georgian
3 entries- დორბლი noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- ნერწყვი noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- შისველე noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
German
1 entries- Sputum noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Hungarian
2 entries- köpet noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- váladék noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- vēuhàk noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Korean
1 entries- 가래 noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Ladino
1 entries- balgam noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Polish
1 entries- plwocina noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Portuguese
1 entries- escarro noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Russian
1 entries- мокрота noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Spanish
4 entries- escupitajo noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- esputo noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- gargajo noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- lapo noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Swahili
2 entries- balaghamu noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- kohozi noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Turkish
1 entries- balgam noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Ukrainian
2 entries- мокро́та noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- мокроти́ння noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Vietnamese
2 entries- đàm noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
- đờm noun (matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
I'm coughing up sputum.
Source: tatoeba (10707903)
Finding TB in young children, in particular, poses a hurdle because youngsters often can’t produce a sputum sample necessary to diagnose the disease.
Source: tatoeba (12256666)
In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.
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