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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.

Mucin. [R.]

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

e that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.

Generating mucus.

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.

A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

in which there are congestion, swelling, and an altertion in the quantity and quality of mucus secreted; as catarrh of the stomach; catarrh of the bladder.

The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.

racterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

A medicine designed to be snuffed up the nose, to promote discharges of mucus; a sternutatory. Coxe. -- a.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

ation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

Inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous.

Resembling mucus; having the character or appearance of mucus.