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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A sputum pot and tissues should be provided if appropriate and steam inhalations may be ordered.
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Blood stained sputum , salty, sour or yellow.
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Gao Yang noticed a frothy string of bloody sputum at the corner of his mouth and felt sorry for the sharp-tongued fellow.
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In some patients, there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia.
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Patients M24, M25, and M26 were inpatients when the epidemic strain was first cultured from their sputum .
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Repeated microbiological examination of sputum , blood, and urine proved negative.
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The sputum had decreased and for two successive tests had been negative.
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The rare acute infection shows dyspnoea and violent cough, with white-yellow, occasionally bloody, sputum .