sputum

Matter coughed up and usually ejected from the mouth, including saliva, foreign material, and substances such as mucus or phlegm, from the respiratory tract.

Spittle; a salival discharge from the mouth.

In pathology, that which is expectorated or ejected from the lungs: used also in the plural, in designation of the individual masses.

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.

expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness