Definition of mucus

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Mucus (n.) A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc..

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Expectoration :: Expectoration (n.) The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting..
Expectorant :: Expectorant (a.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat..
Show :: Show (n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor..
Mucous :: Mucous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance..
Muciparous :: Muciparous (a.) Secreting, or producing, mucus or mucin..
Pituitous :: Pituitous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus..
Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..
Mucivore :: Mucivore (n.) An insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora..
Mucific :: Mucific (a.) Inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous.
Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..
Secern :: Secern (v. t.) To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose..
Snivel :: Snivel (v. i.) Mucus from the nose; snot.
Snot :: Snot (n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose..
Astringent :: Astringent (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc..
Snet :: Snet (v. t.) The clear of mucus; to blow.
Apophlegmatic :: Apophlegmatic (a.) Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils.
Blennogenous :: Blennogenous (a.) Generating mucus.
Rattle :: Rattle (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le..
Mucoid :: Mucoid (a.) Resembling mucus.
Erthine :: Erthine (a.) Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.
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