Crossword-Solution: MUCUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “MUCUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tissue detritus | 1 answer |
| Slimy secretion | 1 answer |
| SLIMY substance secreted by mucous membrane | 1 answer |
| FISH, slimy substance exuded by | 1 answer |
| GOBLET cell production | 1 answer |
| GUMMY substance found in all plants | 1 answer |
| Protective secretion | 1 answer |
| Protective secretion found in the gut, nose, throat and lungs | 1 answer |
| SLIMY substance exuded by some animals | 1 answer |
| GUMMY substance | 2 answers |
| Cold stuff | 2 answers |
| sputum | 3 answers |
| SEMEN, constituent of | 4 answers |
| Snail trail | 4 answers |
| Snot | 4 answers |
| SALIVA, constituent of | 5 answers |
| Slimy substance | 5 answers |
| phlegm | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCAEEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MUCUS (5)
Even when much diluted with air, it produces the most annoying irritation of the throat, with stricture of the chest and a severe cough, which continues for hours, with the discharge of much thick mucus.
Immediately ensued suffocation, nausea, vomiting, together with the expectoration of blood and mucus.
Today the boatswain, maddened by starvation, laid hands upon everything that met his voracious eyes, and I could hear the grating of his teeth as he gnawed at fragments of sails and bits of wood, instinctively endeavouring to fill his stomach by putting the mucus’ into circulation at length, by dint of an eager search, he came upon a piece of leather hanging to one of the spars that supported the platform.
Hair is composed of a rather large quantity of mucus, a small quantity of white oil, a great deal of greenish oil, iron, a few atoms of oxide of manganese, some phosphate of lime, a tiny quantity of carbonate of lime, a little silica, and a good deal of sulphur.
These, after immersion for exactly one week, have all germinated, which I did not in the least expect (and thought how you would sneer at me); for the water of nearly all, and of the cress especially, smelt very badly, and the cress seed emitted a wonderful quantity of mucus (the 'Vestiges' would have expected them to turn into tadpoles), so as to adhere in a mass; but these seeds germinated and grew splendidly.
Quotes with MUCUS (3)
I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me whether I knew the reason why a blister can keep on producing fluid ad infinitum. I said that I had always wondered the same thing about mucus. One of the reasons we are together is because we have similar interests.
How good it is when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this is the dead body of a bird or pig; and again, that the Falernian wine is the mere juice of grapes, and your purple edged robe simply the hair of a sheep soaked in shell-fish blood! And in sexual intercourse that it is no more than the friction of a membrane and a spurt of mucus ejected. How good these perceptions are at getting to the heart …
Moving on, while he wondered, the dark through which Mr. Lecky's light cut grew more beautiful with scents. Particles of solid matter so minute, gases so subtle, that they filtered through stopping and sealing, hung on the unstirred air. Drawn in with Mr. Lecky's breath came impalpable dews cooked out of disintegrating coal. Distilled, chemically split and reformed, they ended in flawless simulation of the aromas of gums, the scent of woods and the world's flowers. The chemis…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2012–2013).