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Phlegm is the thick mucus and sputum the material coughed up from the lining of the respiratory tract.
Phlegm is the thick mucus and sputum the material coughed up from the lining of the respiratory tract.
sputum is phlegm ejected through the mouth that can be examined for diagnostic purposes. is a procedure in which a sample of mucus is coughed up from the lungs and them examined under a microscope to detect cancer cells.
Phlegm
Sputum
A "loogie" is a thick ball of phlegm that forms in the trachea or bronchial tubes, and is coughed up. To cough up a ball of phlegm and spit it out is colloquially called " to hock a loogie" or "hawking a loogie" (from the characteristic sound of expectoration, and related to the verb "hack" meaning to cough).
Phlegm would be described as sputum only after it is expelled from the body. The word sputum literally means, that which has been spit.
According to the beliefs of ancient Greek and Roman physicians they are black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood, this is right but... Black bile is when you eat something and vomit after Yellow Bile is the same or could be coughed out Blood and phlegm can be sneezed out your nose or coughed out
A "loogie" is a thick ball of phlegm that forms in the trachea or bronchial tubes, and is coughed up. To cough up a ball of phlegm and spit it out is colloquially called " to hock a loogie" or "hawking a loogie" (from the characteristic sound of expectoration or clearing the throat, and related to the verb "hack" meaning to cough).
The lay person's term for that is phlegm.
SPUTUM
sputum is phlegm ejected through the mouth that can be examined for diagnostic purposes. is a procedure in which a sample of mucus is coughed up from the lungs and them examined under a microscope to detect cancer cells.