sputum

UBERON:0007311 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT REVIEWED

Matter ejected from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea, through the mouth. — UBERON

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals: Human > Respiratory system > Sputum/Phlegm 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	4968	ORGANISM
GOLD	Host-associated > Mammals > Respiratory system > Sputum/Phlegm 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	—

Broader habitats

respiratory system fluid/secretion UBERON:0006538
Respiratory system habitatmech:GOLD.e36ba981d1
Respiratory system habitatmech:GOLD.fac4f63f3b

Also called

Sputum/Phlegm — GOLD
expectoration — UBERON

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0007311 'sputum' (EXACT). Slash alternative naming one thing; grounded to the head term. Matches the sibling path already curated. Pulled out of the class-level sweep, whose note wrongly claimed no term matched. Label: 'Sputum/Phlegm'. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.8278672fe5)
GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to UBERON:0007311 'sputum' (EXACT). GOLD's Respiratory system > Sputum/Phlegm. UBERON:0007311 sputum is exact; UBERON:0016552 phlegm is a synonym-level variant of the same material. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.f958f5eecc)

Provenance

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