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Mucus   /mjˈukəs/   Listen
Mucus

noun
1.
Protective secretion of the mucus membranes; in the gut it lubricates the passage of food and protects the epithelial cells; in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the epithelium.  Synonym: mucous secretion.






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"Mucus" Quotes from Famous Books



... appearances which generally accompany Death, are: Cessation of the heart's action, eyes half-closed, pupils dilated, tongue approaching to the inner edges of the lips, lips and nostrils covered with a frothy mucus. Coldness and pallor of ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... commonly begun with Sickness and Gripes, succeeded by a Purging, and attended with more or less Fever. Very soon the Gripes became more severe, attended with a Flatulency in the Bowels, and often with a Tenesmus. The Stools were chiefly composed of Mucus, mixed with Bile, and more or less Blood: tho' sometimes no Blood could be observed in them; and then the Soldiers used to say they had the ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... a cold. Dover's Powder (in small doses, by causing perspiration and thus checking a fever or throwing off a cold), quinine, calomel (for biliousness and to clean out the intestines when they are clogged with waste and mucus), Epsom salts or castor oil (to clean out the bowels also), an emetic, like sirup of ipecac (to empty the stomach quickly in case of emergency), some mustard for making a plaster for the chest (in ...
— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin

... As Frederick assumed, what had happened was, that she had sunk unconscious to the bottom of the boat and had lain for some time under water. He opened her mouth, forced her gold-filled teeth apart, put her tongue in the right position, and removed mucus, which had gathered at the opening of the air-passages. While the ship's cook rubbed her body with hot cloths, Frederick tried to induce artificial respiration by raising and lowering her arms ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann



Words linked to "Mucus" :   mucin, sputum, mucous secretion, leucorrhea, secretion, snot, phlegm, leukorrhea, mucous, booger



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