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Mucus

a word, under which various substances are included, consisting chiefly of horny-like substances, epithelium, detached from the mucous surfaces and tor of Saxony. MUHLBERG floating in a peculiar viscid, clear fluid; in some cases these secretions are altered, becoming albuminoid, etc. Mucous affections are, mucin, an inflammatory product; mucous cysts, mucous laryngitis, In botany polypi, softening tumors. In botany gummy matter, m soluble in water. It also contains mucin.

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