Preposition: from

• subject: IL-8 has been detected in BAL fluid and sputum from such subjects and in the systemic circulation.

Converse of object

• induce: Outcomes included inflammatory cells in induced sputum and bronchial biopsies, and methacholine responsiveness.

• produce: Patients with Legionnaires ' disease usually have fever, chills, and a cough, which may be dry or may produce sputum.

• have: Eleven of these mothers were sputum positive and the two children who died both had a sputum positive mother.

Adjective modifier

• purulent: For example, a person suffering with pneumococcal pneumonia may have chest pain, cough, purulent sputum, and fever.

• frothy: Frothy sputum on ascent, blood in the spit, the works.

• infected: Swallowed infected sputum has resulted in spread to the Peyer's patches of the ileum.

• bloody: He surfaced up to his waist and started shouting and groaning, with bloody sputum coming from his mouth.

• green: Green sputum does not necessarily mean that you have a secondary chest infection.

• blood-stained: Chest pains, or coughing up blood or blood-stained sputum.

Modifies a noun

• smear: Infection is most commonly acquired by aerosol spread from index cases, who are sputum smear positive.

• specimen: The GP may arrange for sputum specimens to be sent to the laboratory.

• induction: A possible factor is shown in the results of UV light intensity in the sputum induction room.

• sample: Please note an emergency request for a sputum sample should be accompanied by a laboratory call out.

• production: Abstract: In patients with COPD, chest infection causes an increase in sputum production.

• culture: Repeat episodes of pneumonia were defined by the presence of new pathogens on sputum culture.

Noun used with modifier

• and/or: Pulmonary tuberculosis is usually diagnosed by chest X-ray and/or sputum analysis ( microscopy and culture ); serological tests are increasingly available.