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Example sentences for: mucus

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' Phlegm eventually came to refer to mucus (1662) and to be hawked (1604) from the sinuses or lungs of people with respiratory tract irritation or infection.
Additional studies should examine changes in mucus layer thickness, mucus viscosity and permeability for bile acids associated with hetero- and homozygosity for CFTR mutations.
The results of this study open up further avenues of investigation with respect to the role of the mucus layer in causing a secondary up-regulation of IBAT expression and function.
Hrog , it seems to this perhaps perverted mind, is a better word than ours for mucus of the nose, or snot.
Based on this evidence, we postulate that the more viscous mucus layer in the ileal crypts of individuals with cystic fibrosis limits access of luminal bile acids and micelles to the ileal crypt cells.