mucus

[US]/'mjuːkəs/
[UK]/'mjukəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a thick and slimy secretion, typically produced by the nose or respiratory passages.

Phrases & Collocations

excessive mucus production

coughing up mucus

cervical mucus

Example Sentences

the viscid mucus lining of the intestine.

Coughing clears the lungs of mucus.

It is commonly caused by chronic alveolar hypoventilation or air way mucus plugging.

Make cuttlefish into mucus, use shive roll it, moisten egg slurry, bread bran and lavender on it, fry it for 6 minutes.

The characteristic changes at necropsy were swelling, hyperemia, hemorrhage and atrophy of proventriculus papillae and with mucus on the surface of papillae.

The bacteria in your large intestine eat your unwanted dead cells, and mucins (which are part of the mucus lining of your gut), so generating useful chemicals and waste gases.

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