See Also: law of multiple proportions(medicine)
law of definite proportions(medicine)
law of reciprocal proportions(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Sputum(medicine)
sputum(dictionary)
sputum(dictionary)
nummular sputum(medicine)
sputum aerogenosum(medicine)
sputum smear(medicine)

sputum analysis (medicine) and law of multiple proportions (medicine)


sputum analysis (medicine)


sputum analysis


A method of detecting certain infections (especially tuberculosis) by culturing of sputum, the mucus matter that collects in the respiratory and upper digestive passages and is expelled by coughing.


law of multiple proportions (medicine)


law of multiple proportions -->
law of reciprocal proportions


The relative weights in which two substances form a chemical union singly with a third are the same as, or simple multiples of, those in which they unite with each Other; a corollary of the law of definite proportions.

Synonym: law of multiple proportions.