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Mount Carmel – Mucous Membranes
Mount Carmel
a borough in Northumberland co., Pa.; on the Philadelphia and Reading, the Lehigh Valley, and the Northern Central railroads. It contains a National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. In the vicinity are several extensive anthracite coal mines.
Pop. (1910) 17,532; (1920) 17,469.
Mount Holly
a town in New Jersey, the county-seat of Burlington co., about 20 miles E. of Philadelphia. It is situated on Rancocas creek and on the Pennsylvania railroad. It contains a Children's Home, the Burlington County Hospital, and the Burlington County Lyceum. Its chief industrial products are shoes, machine-shop products, foundry products, leather goods, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,652; (1920) 5,945.
Mount Holyoke College
an educational, non-sectarian institution for women in South Hadley, Mass.; founded in 1837; reported at the close of 1919:
Professors and instructors, 133; students, 815; volumes in the library, 72,- 352; productive funds, $1,425,640; in- Vol. VI-Cyc-V MOUNT OLIVER come, $70,028; number of graduates, 3,370; president, Miss Mary Emma Woolley, Litt. D., L. H. D., LL. D.
Mount Oliver
a suburb of the city of Pittsburgh in Allegheny co., Pa.
Pop. (1910) 4,231; (1920) 5,575.
Mount Vernon
a city and countyseat of Knox co., O., on the Kokosing river, and on the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 25 miles N. W. of Newark. It is the center of a large agricultural region from which it draws a considerable trade. Here are a court house, National banks, electric
Mount Union College
a coeducational institution in Alliance, 0.; founded in 1846 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919. Professors and instructors, 20; students, 334; president, W. H. McMaster, D. D., A. M.
Mouse
a popular name for the as the body. The field mouse, which is smaller species of the genus Mus, the larger ones being called rats. The common mouse is dusky-gray above, ashy underneath; the tail being about as long の MOUNT VERNON coach house contains Washington's carriage and in the garden are trees planted by his hands.
Mouth
the cavity containing the organs of tas taste, mastication, and insalivation. In fortifications, the outer or widest part of an embrasure; the narrow part being the neck. Also the part of a trench most remote from the besieged place.
Mozambique Channel
a waterway between Madagascar and the E. coast of Africa; about 1,000 miles long and 400 in average breadth. At its N. extremity are the Comoro Islands.
Mozdok
a town of Russian Caucasus; on the Terek; 58 miles N. of Vladikavkaz, with three large annual fairs for horses, sheep, cattle, etc. It grows excellent melons and wine. Pop. about 15,000.
Mucilage
in ordinary language, a solution of gummy matter of any kind in water. In chemistry, the gum of seeds and roots. It is present in large quantities in the root of the marshmallow and in linseed.
Mucous Membranes
membranes consisting of prolongations of the skin, having their surface coated over and protected by mucus. Their chief divisions are the gastro-pneumonic and genito-urinary mucous membranes, the former covering the inside of the alimentary canal, the air passages, etc.; the latter the inside of the bladder and the urinary passage.