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noun

a viscous, slimy mixture of mucins, water, electrolytes, epithelial cells, and leukocytes that is secreted by glands lining the nasal, esophageal, and other body cavities and serves primarily to protect and lubricate surfaces.

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Origin:
1655–65; < Latin mūcus snot; akin to Greek myktḗr nose, mýxa slime

Can be confused: mucous, mucus.

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Some people argue blowing your nose reverses the flow of mucus into the sinuses and slows drainage.

The mucus inside the male elephant's trunk helps deliver a concentrated whiff of the seductive scent.

Nasal mucus has growth factors that, when increased in numbers, can lead to production of new smell receptors and.

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Some people argue blowing your nose reverses the flow of mucus into the sinuses and slows drainage.

The mucus inside the male elephant's trunk helps deliver a concentrated whiff of the seductive scent.

Nasal mucus has growth factors that, when increased in numbers, can lead to production of new smell receptors and.

Drinking extra juice and water is supposed to replace fluids in the body lost to fever and to help break up mucus.

Actually, if you have a lot of mucus in your head sometimes this air doesn't come out.

Coughing helps your body get rid of mucus from your lungs.

Instead of using a surfboard, they hang upside down on rafts made with the snail's mucus.

Helminths could suppress immune disorders by promoting healthy mucus production in the intestine.

Mace does a number on the body's mucus membranes and can cause disorientation, dizziness and may immobilize the target.

Medications that loosen mucus may also be prescribed, but how well they work remains uncertain.

Tubes inside the lung become chronically inflamed, producing excess mucus.

But these crafty microbes appeared to live under the thick mucus layer of the stomach¿s lining.

In addition to supercold breath, he has superhot nose mucus.

The cervix is lined with glands and cells that release mucus.

Living coral oozes a clear mucus substance that helps protect the animal against the sun's ultraviolet rays.

The mucus itself might also being playing a role in the snails survival.

The mucus allows it to slip and slide until you cough it out of your lungs.

The mucus layer, which coats the stomach and duodenum, forms the first line of defense.

And they are quite suitable irritants of any tissues lined with mucus membranes.

As much as it looks life a gross slime to us, snail mucus is actually a pretty remarkable.

Bicarbonate, which the mucus layer secretes, neutralizes the digestive acids.

When cornered by ants on a leaf, the slug produces a protective sticky mucus.

In small or moderate doses, progesterone-only methods work by suppressing some ovulation, and by thickening cervical mucus.

Cyanosis is a bluish color to the skin or mucus membranes that is usually due to a lack of oxygen in the blood.

While gnat larvae develop in the boobies' droppings, adults sip moist mucus from the birds' eyelids.

Collect some mucus between your two fingers and stretch it apart.

As mucus drooled out of the lizard's mouth, he used a test tube on a pole to collect it.

Scientists say that the notion of a link between milk and mucus may have persisted for centuries, but that it has no basis.

Each sinus cavity has an opening into the nose to allow a free exchange of air and mucus.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis affects the skin and mucus membranes.

Chicken soup also contains cold-fighting compounds that help dissolve mucus in the lungs and suppress inflammation.

Enlargement of the mucus glands in the large airways of the lungs.

The sufferer sneezes and drips away, but the mucus is clear, unlike the kind present in an infection.

Expectorants are drugs that cause mucus to be coughed up from the lungs.

Various techniques or devices have been developed to remove the mucus lining of the esophagus.

The virus spreads through contact with saliva, feces, nose and throat mucus or fluid secreted from blisters.

Leukoplakia mainly affects the mucus membranes of the mouth.

Or even that staring down our hero penguin's throat, with all those layers of pink mucus membrane, looks creepily clinical.

These molecules are found throughout the body, often in mucus and in fluid around the joints.

Adding baking soda to the solution can help break up thick mucus.

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World English Dictionary

mucus (ˈmjuːkəs)

—n
	the slimy protective secretion of the mucous membranes, consisting mainly of mucin

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Word Origin & History

mucus

1660s, from L. mucus "slime, mold, snot," from PIE base *(s)meug- "to slip, slippery, slime" (cf. L. emungere "to sneeze out, blow one's nose," mucere "be moldy or musty," Gk. myssesthai "to blow the nose," myxa "mucus," mykes "fungus," Skt. muncati "he releases"). Replaced O.E. horh, which may be imitative.

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Medical Dictionary

mucus mu·cus (my&oomacr;'kəs)
n.
The viscous slippery substance that consists chiefly of mucin, water, cells, and inorganic salts and that is secreted as a protective lubricant coating by the cells and glands of the mucous membranes.

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Science Dictionary

mucus (my

'kəs) Pronunciation Key
The slimy, viscous substance secreted as a protective lubricant by mucous membranes. Mucus is composed chiefly of large glycoproteins called mucins and inorganic salts suspended in water.

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Cultural Dictionary

mucus definition

A slippery and somewhat sticky fluid secreted by the glands in mucous membranes. Mucus lubricates and protects the mucous membranes.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

mucus

viscous fluid that moistens, lubricates, and protects many of the passages of the digestive and respiratory tracts in the body. Mucus is composed of water, epithelial (surface) cells, dead leukocytes, mucin, and inorganic salts. Mucus is produced by mucous cells, which are frequently clustered into small glands located on the mucous membrane that lines virtually the entire digestive tract. Large numbers of mucous cells occur in the mouth, where mucus is used both to moisten food and to keep the oral membranes moist while they are in direct contact with the air. Mucus in the nose helps to trap dust, bacteria, and other small inhaled particles. The stomach also has large numbers of mucous cells. Gastric mucus forms a layer about one millimetre thick that lines the stomach, protecting the organ from highly acidic gastric juice and preventing the juice from digesting the stomach itself.

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