mucus

And when I desired honey I only desired bait, and sweet mucus and mucilage, for which even the mouths of growling bears, and strange, sulky, evil birds, water:

It was a yellowish brown and seemed coated with a rough and half-dry mucus.

"We can't have a watery layer separating sticky mucus from our cells because there is an osmotic pressure in the mucus that causes it to expand in water," Rubinstein says.

Another fact I consider important is the retention of the cervical mucus, which may be crucial to prevent ascending infection and PROM.

A blocked nose is due to swollen erectile tissue When your nose feels blocked it isn't because it's full of mucus, but because the veins in your nose are inflamed.

The airways protect the human body by producing and clearing mucus away from the airways.

The airways protect the body by producing and clearing mucus from the airways.

The spaces are lined with a membrane containing cells that secrete mucus, which filters and warms the air you breathe in.

Salps are sometimes called "the ocean's vacuum cleaners." The soft, barrel-shaped, transparent animals take in water at one end, filter out tiny edible plants and animals with internal nets made of mucus, and squirt water out their back ends to propel themselves forward.

A new study highlights that it hampers the cleaning of mucus from the airways.

Now US researchers are concentrating on the mucus layer that protects fish from bacteria, viruses and fungi.

The researchers theorized that the habit of suppressing the cough (which helps clear the lungs of mucus) predisposed these women to MAC infections.