A major advantage of sputum induction, however, is that patients who are normally unable to expectorate can almost always produce sputum after inhaling hypertonic saline. |
According to an independent survey on spitting this year showed that 300 million Chinese expectorate in public. |
In our study, almost half of the subjects completing both visits did not expectorate regularly, and thus we had almost twice the number of subjects for analysis. |
However, sampling may be difficult in the younger patients and in patients with mild disease who do not expectorate. |
Besides, who could like an instrument where all you do is expectorate into metal tubes! |
When I came to spit it out, he offered me the cup, so I was was forced to expectorate into a three-inch deep slurry of chewing tobacco. |