The frequent flushings they give their throats and stomachs really do not seem to wash the mucus away.
In the subacute or acute stage of the inflammatory process there is more general redness and puffiness of the mucous membrane, or a swollen condition with increased discharge of mucus and perhaps some blood.
The microscopical examination of mucus and desquamated membrane from a woman sixty-five years of age, disclosed that she was suffering from proctitis and colitis.
The second objection is that the water will wash away the mucus from the mucous membrane of the bowels and leave them dry and parched, and thus apt to crack and break in two.
In the morning be sure to rinse the mouth free of the accumulated mucus before drinking the water.
Through the exudation and consequent changes in the normal tissue a large amount of mucus is at first secreted, but this secretion becomes less and less marked the more the inflammation causes a desquamation of the epithelia.
If air and frothy mucus with blood, as noticed in one of the cases recorded in the Crimean campaign, escape by the wound, there can be no doubt of the nature of the injury.
These gelatinous mixtures are likewise an useful injection in some diarrhoeas, particularly where the lower intestines have their natural mucus rubbed off by the flux, or are constantly irritated by the acrimony of the matter.
Defn: A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
Defn: Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle.
In films stained by Gabbet's method tubercle bacilli, if present, will be seen as slender red rods upon a blue background of mucus and cells (Plate II, Fig.
When the mucusis small in amount and intimately mixed with the stool, the trouble is probably in the small intestine.
Excessive quantities of mucusare easily detected with the naked eye, and signify irritation or inflammation.
Whitish or grayish flakes ofmucus or blood-stained or purulent particles should be spread upon slides or covers and stained by the method given upon p.
Since the sputum ordinarily consists of varying proportions of mucus and pus, it may vary from a colorless, translucent mucus to an opaque, whitish or yellow, purulent mass.
Mucus frequently appears in the form of long strands which slightly resemble hyaline casts (Fig.
Stools composed almost wholly of mucus and streaked with blood are the rule in dysentery, ileocolitis, and intussusception.
Mucus is recognized from its characteristic slimy appearance when the fluid is poured from one vessel into another.
As a rule, the more mucus and the less pus and serum a sputum contains, the more tenacious it is.
The natural discharge of mucus is increased, and is more viscid, followed by acute inflammation.
It loosens up the mucus in the stomach, and in half an hour it will have passed out.
Its lining becomes coated with a slimy mucus that arrests the action of the glands, coats the food and prevents the gastric juice from acting upon it.
Besides the importance of proper care and feeding of the cow as a preventive measure, attention should be given at once to relieve the newborn calf of its investing membrane and of any mucus that has collected in mouth or nostrils.
If in a cow giving milk the secretion diminishes, the mucus from the eyes and nose becomes thicker and yellower.
The anterior end of the grub is at the bottom of the tumor, where the mucus collects upon which it feeds.
The secretion is very abundant and consists at first largely of serum and mucus resembling the white of an egg.
Later a severe diarrhea sets in, when the passages contain mucus and blood and have an offensive odor.
If mucus is present at the same time, the bile may become so viscid that when it is poured from one glass to another it forms long bands.
The symptoms of oak poisoning are constipation, mucus and blood in the feces, emaciation, and edema.
The tail is stained by the liquid dejections, which are at first simply soft and mixed with mucus with a sour odor, accompanied with a peculiar and characteristic fetor (suggesting rotten cheese), which continually grows worse.
At this stage he does not pass any dung, though sometimes a small quantity of bloody mucus may be passed.
The explanation is now satisfactory--the foreign body carries in with it bacteria, which act as ferments upon the urine and mucus in addition to the mechanical injury caused by its presence.
The passages at first are few in number, hard, and are sometimes coated with mucus or with blood.
Various respiratory murmurs may also be heard, caused by the to-and-fro movement of mucus and inflammatory deposits along the air passages.
The membrane is thickened, reddened, rendered friable, and ultimately ulcerated, and the now narrowed sheath is blocked by the increasing mass of sebaceous and urinous material and the decomposing mucus and pus.
In the severe cases the appetite is interfered with, mucus accumulates in the mouth and the bird is dull and listless.
When a paroxysm of coughing occurs, considerable mucus is expelled.
If the mouth is examined at this time, an accumulation of mucus and patches of diphtheritic or false membranes are found.
A frothy mucus was effused from them in great quantities.
The respiration became very slow, and obstructed by the accumulation of mucus in the lungs; the pulse very intermittent, then regular, and finally fluctuating.
MUCUS is a viscid fluid secreted by the gland-cells, or epithelia.
The use of this membrane and its secreted mucus is to protect the inner surface of the cavities which it lines.
A discharge of blood andmucus from the intestines attended with tenesmus.
The origin of mucus from epithelial cells under physiological and pathological conditions being apparent, it readily follows that the epithelioid cells of tumors might be supposed to be liable to a similar metamorphosis.
Paul Bert found the bronchial mucus virulent in dogs in which the saliva was non-virulent.
If, with frequent disposition to pass something, only small quantities of bloody mucus escape, with pain and bearing down, we recognize dysentery.
The mucus scraped from the lining membrane of the intestine and mixed with water renders it turbid with epithelial débris.
The ejecta contain mucus in gastritis, blood in ulcer and in cancer of the stomach, stercoraceous {163} material in obstruction of the bowels, black vomit in bad cases of yellow fever.
In cases accompanied by prostration mucus may accumulate in the bronchial tubes, and be the cause of the patient's death by preventing the due aëration of the blood.
The vomited matters are usually at first gastric mucus with bile, afterward dark coffee-colored fluid; in certain cases blood is vomited.
The matters vomited consist of the ingesta colored with bile, of glairy mucus tinged with bile, or of green bile, sometimes in considerable quantity.
The act of coughing, however, may expel bacteria in the mucus ejected.
When the catarrh is severe the nutriment that the child takes into the stomach is immediately rejected or it may vomit glairy or greenish mucusfrom an empty stomach.
The quantity of mucus which passes off with the urine varies greatly at different periods and in different cases.
The secretion is very scant at first, but becomes more abundant as the disease progresses, its character also changes from a white, glairy mucus to a creamy, muco-purulent or yellowish discharge.
The mucus or slime that formerly accompanied the urinary discharge is now assuming the character of matter or has become muco-purulent.
When the disease becomes more advanced, the quantity of mucus may be equal to the quantity of urine that passes.
There is still another kind of diarrhœa which is foamy and contains large quantities of mucus and little or no coloring matter.
This is a straining sensation as if the bowels wanted to move, yet notwithstanding the violent bearing down, only a little mucus often streaked with pus or blood is discharged.
Every passage contains glairy mucus formed into lumps resembling granules of boiled starch, streaked with blood and associated with a creamy looking substance which is purulent matter.
Sometimes the bowels are constipated, but usually the movements are frequent, loose, green, contain mucus and are passed with much gas.
Grate the cucumbers on a grater, place the grated mass upon a clean white cloth, and gently express the juice so that no mucus passes through the cloth.
The trouble with the urine is also apt to increase, and little mucus tubercles, like pimples, occasionally form around the Os Tincæ, and on the upper part of the Vagina.
They are deceived by the tough mucus slipping under the hand, but still clinging to the body, where they leave it even after using the napkin; it then dries on and forms a hard skin, very difficult to remove, and very irritating.
The interior is lined, like the Vagina, with a mucus membrane, and the whole organ is plentifully supplied with arteries, veins, and nerves.
It should then be held up, towards the pubes, and the mucus should be cleaned from the mouth with one of the fingers, so that the child may breathe.
In the unimpregnated state the mucus membrane, which lines the Vagina, is of a bright rose color, but in nearly every case of pregnancy it changes to a bluish, or purplish hue.
The drying should be done as quickly as possible, after all the mucus is washed off, and with great care; the napkin being as soft as it can be, and never rubbed hard, for it takes but little force to remove the skin.
Occasionally the external lips will be covered with pustules during pregnancy, and frequent discharges of mucus will occur from the vagina.
It is true that in some young females the mucus lining is naturally darker than it is in others, but, like the areola round the nipple, this natural tinge is not like that produced by pregnancy.
As the period of abortion approaches, there will be a discharge of mucus and blood from the womb.
Large quantities of mucus will escape from the nose and mouth.
A stringymucus is sometimes expelled during the spasm of coughing.
After two or three days the cough becomes looser and, a frothy, sticky mucus of a yellowish color is present.
The adult worms in the lungs produce large quantities of eggs, which are coughed up withmucus and become scattered over premises where other hogs are permitted to walk.
As the disease progresses, there will be a peculiar bubbling sound from breathing due to an excessive accumulation of mucus in the windpipe.
This mucus contains worms which can be detected, or their ova observed under a magnifying glass.
The passage of feces is entirely suspended and the animal passes only a little mucus occasionally.
Other symptoms are constipation, the feces covered with mucus or a slime, great thirst.
After a day or two there will be a discharge of mucus from the nostrils which may be offensive to the smell.
Another cause which sometimes operates against the vital sperm penetrating to the waiting ovum is an excess of mucus at the mouth of the womb.
In Limnocodium the body secretes a gelatinous mucus to which adhere particles of mud, &c.
The mucusof the mouth is not much increased in quantity, but it soon becomes thicker, viscid, and glutinous, and adheres to the angles of the mouth, fauces and teeth.
Their clefts and their intermediate valleys allowed the marine mucus to accumulate in places, and to be electrified into life by the warm currents.
To save themselves from the rude contact of sharp and ragged stones, they employed the universal means, a glutinous mucus from which they secreted an enveloping tube, which elongated in proportion to the length of their journey.
Such a discharge of mucus during sleep is called an emission or pollution.
The pulse is generally slow, unless broken compensation occurs; dyspnea on exertion is a prominent symptom; the increased secretion of mucus in the bronchial tubes and throat is often troublesome, and there is liable to be considerable cough.
In cases of extrinsic cancer the early symptoms are much more marked, pain and difficulty in swallowing, and the secretion of frothy, blood-stained mucus being among the earliest manifestations.
Concretions having a plug of inspissated mucus or a small foreign body as a nucleus sometimes form in the nose.
The respiratory movements are thus impeded, and, as the patient is unable to cough, mucus gathers in the air-passages and there is a tendency to broncho-pneumonia.
