- prune juice sputum
- dark reddish brown, bloody sputum, seen in lung conditions such as certain forms of pneumonia, cancer, or gangrene.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
prune juice sputum
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Sputum — The mucus material from the lungs that a person coughs up. * * * 1. Expectorated matter, especially mucus or mucopurulent matter expectorated in diseases of the air passages. SEE ALSO: expectoration (1). 2. An individual mass of such matter. [L.… … Medical dictionary
expectoration — 1. Mucus and other fluids formed in the air passages and upper food passages (the mouth), and expelled by coughing. SEE ALSO: sputum (1). 2. The act of spitting; the expelling from the mouth of saliva, mucus, and other material from the air or… … Medical dictionary
