Similar words: caucus, hocus-pocus, cucumber, truculent, lucubrate, truculence, lucubration, much. Meaning: ['mjuːkəs] n. protective secretion of the mucous 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.
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31 Terrestrial amphibians respire through their skin and to do this must keep it moist with mucus.
32 The worms live under a layer of mucus in the stomach wall.
33 Will the virus attach to lung cells in cystic fibrosis patients, who typically have lots of mucus in their lungs?
34 This fish gives off a poisonous mucus from its mouth when alarmed.
35 As the sun bakes out the last moisture from the mud, the mucus turns to parchment.
36 Cold may also go down on to the chest with lots of secretions, coughing and rattling of mucus.
37 But even this normally impervious mucus is easily breached by ethanol.
38 However, in paroxysmal coughing, large amounts of bronchial mucus are often expelled, containing large numbers of larvae.
39 A short dry cough, may be a little watery mucus, possibly blood streaked.
40 Two tissues discovered in the vicinity showed traces of her mucus and her saliva.
41 Blow your nose by holding one nostril shut and forcing the mucus to shoot out the other.
42 The patient expectorates mucus each morning shortly after rising.
43 Commonly the muzzle is encrusted with mucus and exudate.
44 Characteristic mucus of gastric foveola epithelium or pyloric gland.
45 This small amount of mucus blocks the cervical canal.
46 Chronic diarrhea often with mucus or blood; cats may have formed feces with hematochezia .
47 Mucus - roller flower - printing oil use to inner - wall tile and rustic tile.
48 As for non- sialolith (including proliferation and mucus plug) cases in parotid gland, 36 cases were treated effectively by lavage and dilation under sialendoscopy,(sentencedict.com/mucus.html) successful rate is 87.5%.
49 Objective To investigate the roles of theaflavins(TFs) in airway mucus hypersecretion induced by human neutrophil elastase(HNE).
50 They can become inflamed and fill with pus (pyocele) or pus and mucus (mucopyocele).
51 In land animals, saliva contains mucus(Sentencedict.com), and provides lubrication for food in the alimentary canal.
52 According to the diagnosis results, it was confirmed as mucus capsulitis under el bowscalp.
53 This method helps to liquify mucus the same as standing in a hot shower would help phlegm to become more liquid.
54 The exudation of progestational hormone and estrogen to palace neck mucus action is completely contrary.
55 And after the initial explosive sound, there are subtleties like vibrating vocal cords and mucus that reveal information about what is happening in the patient's respiratory system.
56 It is impossibls to rehydrate a mucus globule once it has become dehyrated.
57 The rale produced when air passes through mucus - clogged bronchioles.
58 Asthma is characterized by chronic airway inflammation and mucus hypersecretion , but the excess mucus secretion has been relatively undervalued in pathophysiology of asthma.
59 Clingy strands are typical of similarly elastic fluids, such as mucus.
60 It is possible that Jerry had a congenital anomaly in his bronchial tree that led to the pooling of mucus, and eventually to infection, but it is impossible to know for certain.
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