(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.
(n.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.
(n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peptidoglycan of MRSA grown in the presence of cefazolin was susceptible to lysis by respiratory mucus.
(2) To develop a new immunobead binding test (IBT) procedure that will detect sperm antibody in cervical mucus (CM), especially in very small samples of mucus.
(3) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
(4) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
(5) Although no anatomical 'barrier' has been described, it has been suggested that the gel mucus and epithelial phospholipids are constituents.
(6) This hydrostatic pressure may well be the driving force for creating channels for acid and pepsin to cross the mucus layer covering the mucosal surface.
(7) Tracheal mucus transport rate (TMTR) and quantitative clearance of aerosolized Escherichia coli from the trachea, lung, and air sac were measured in healthy unanesthetized turkeys and in turkeys exposed by aerosol to a La Sota vaccine strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV).
(8) After controlling for FEV1, cough was still significantly associated with treatment for airway disease in general and both cough, mucus hypersecretion and chronic bronchitis were significantly associated with treatment for airway obstruction.
(9) This report describes two patients with long-term catheter use who developed increasing respiratory failure and cor pulmonale, at least in part, due to a large tracheal mucus plug.
(10) Rabbits, affected by acute bronchitis, treated orally with the title compounds showed a considerable reduction of the viscosity of the bronchial mucus.
(11) The number of CC-treated patients with poor mucus quality in the face of adequate follicular development was 24, or 48%.
(12) The authors report two cases of primary adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder with secretion of mucus, observed over a year period, between 1978 and 1990.
(13) Acidic mucus containing goblet cells have been revealed using Alcian blue staining when added to the PAS stained cells in conditions that have previously been shown to have reduced goblet cell population when assessed by PAS-haematoxylin staining.
(14) Antioxidants and inhibitors of lipid peroxidation were effective inhibitors of both mucus secretion and 15 HETE production.
(15) The resulting reduction in fluid secretion by glands may contribute to the accumulation of airway mucus in CF.
(16) The migration of human spermatozoa in cervical mucus obtained from women shortly before mid-cycle was studied, using an in-vitro method for horizontal sperm penetration.
(17) Abnormalities of cervical mucus can have a bearing on a woman's fertility.
(18) The inability of these young smokers to enhance their mucus clearance by cough suggests a change in the mucociliary apparatus from normal.
(19) Cellular mucus of the mucous cells from gastric epithelium and surface mucus from gastric mucosa were obtained by perfusion in vivo of Ghosh-Lai rat stomachs with 2 M NaCl.
(20) These results suggest that long-lasting excitation of DMN neurons facilitate gastric ulcer formation and that a decrease in mucus content in gastric mucosa plays an important role in the process of gastric ulcer formation by kainic acid injection into the DMN.
Serous
Definition:
(a.) Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
(a.) Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma has distinctly different clinical behavior compared to serous carcinoma and should be regarded as an aggressive epithelial histologic type.
(2) The percentage of positive cases was highest in the serous MEE group (81.2%) and decreased in the purulent MEE group (57%), the mucoid MEE group (30%), and the hyperviscous MEE group (13.6%), in that order.
(3) The serous fluid of mice was used as a source of endogenous DNAse I.
(4) Incorporation of [2-14C] sodium acetate into 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative, cholesta-4,7-dien-3-on, was studied in the tissues of the rat stomach secretory and esophageal parts and in the mucous and serous membranes of the small intestine.
(5) Ovarian tumors were noted in all 27 patients, including 2 primary carcinomas and 14 serous cystadenomas.
(6) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
(7) We examined the immunocytochemical localization of amylase in cryofixed serous acinar cells of gerbil major salivary glands by indirect immunostaining, using anti-gerbil parotid amylase antibody and protein A-gold complex.
(8) However, in human lungs, lysozyme was identified in serous submucosal glands but not in alveolar type II pneumocytes.
(9) The amount of the fluid flowing off the vessels, perfusate penetration into the intestinal lumen and its transudation through the serous membrane were determined.
(10) The terminology of the pericardial sinuses and recesses has been inconsistent, and the authors propose a nomenclature for standardizing the names of the recesses of the serous pericardium.
(11) Flow cytometric analysis of DNA content and ras p21 expression were studied in paraffin-embedded normal ovary (NO, n = 10), serous cystadenoma (SA, n = 11), serous tumors of low malignant potential (LMP, n = 13), and papillary serous cystadenocarcinoma (SCa, n = 7).
(12) Two previously unnamed recesses within the serous pericardium are defined and named, one the inferior aortic recess of the transverse sinus and the other, the right pulmonic recess of the transverse sinus.
(13) In hypertension, all the components are affected in the microcirculatory bed of serous membranes: arterioles, precapillaries, capillaries, postcapillaries, venules, lymph capillaries and postcapillaries.
(14) Serous granules were stained by toluidine blue, or by hematoxylin and eosin (H and E), but showed little or no reaction with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) or Alcian blue.
(15) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
(16) We created serous retinal detachment in the cat eye by means of photodynamic injury produced by activation of intravascular rose bengal using filtered, focused light (550 nm).
(17) Uterine papillary serous carcinoma (UPSC), FIGO grade 3, nuclear grade 3, and age were the major independent prognostic factors.
(18) A patient with a strongly positive family history underwent a prophylactic oophorectomy and, 5 years later, developed a primary peritoneal papillary serous adenocarcinoma.
(19) Ophthalmoscopic examination disclosed a single, white, elevated mass lesion surrounded by serous retinal detachment located in the upper part of the macula of the right eye.
(20) These cells express serous cell phenotype as reflected by ultrastructure, histochemistry, and lysozyme activity.