mucous

• “Every month, for a few days prior to menstruation, the inside lining of the womb (what we call the mucous membrane or endometrium) becomes congested and its bloodvessels become distended with blood.”

  Woman Her Sex and Love Life

• “This type of polyp tends to retain mucous and is inflamed, which causes bleeding when the stool passes by the polyp and some of the surface cells shed.”

  Juvenile Polyposis

• “It has additionally been traditionally used for breathlessness, clearing mucous from the respiratory system, soothing coughs, assisting divert as great as semen prolongation as great as as an insecticide opposite lice.”

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• “The mucous is a protective coating in their intestines that prevents punctures by sharp fish bones.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States

• “An _inner coat_, or lining, known as the mucous membrane.”

  Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools

• “The interior of the body is likewise lined with a covering, which is termed mucous membrane, from the fact that from its surface, or from certain special glands within it, or from both, there is constantly being secreted a thin semi-transparent fluid called mucus.”

  The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

• “This stage is characterized by all sorts of _eruptions_, mild and severe, by white little patches (called mucous patches) in the throat, mouth, tonsils, vagina, by falling out of the hair, etc. The length of this secondary stage depends a good deal upon the sort of treatment the patient gets.”

  Woman Her Sex and Love Life

• “Mucogen consists of all the constituents necessary for the building up of the peculiarly tender tissue called mucous membrane.”

  Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration

• “The passage is lined with a soft, moist "skin," called mucous membrane, very much like that which lines the stomach and bowels, except that it is covered with tiny little microscopic hairs, called _cilia_, and that its glands pour out a thin, sticky _mucus_, instead of a digestive juice.”

  A Handbook of Health

• “Stimultaneously {sic} with the occurrence of the eruption, slightly raised spots of a whitish color, known as mucous patches, appear on the mucous membrane of the lips and tongue and throat.”

  Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.

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