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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.
- Mucus - n. - Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.
- Mucus - n. - A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
- Mucusin - n. - Mucin.
- 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.
- Hemorrhoids - n. pl. - Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
- Phlegm - a. - Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
- 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.
- Muciparous - a. - Secreting, or producing, mucus or mucin.
- Mucopurulent - a. - Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.
- Pituitary - a. - Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.
- Expectoration - n. - The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
- Secern - v. t. - To secrete; as, mucus secerned in the nose.
- Show - n. - A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
- Dysentery - n. - A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.
- Catarrh - n. - An inflammatory affection of any mucous membrane, in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as, catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.