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2. Cervical mucus plug - Wikipedia

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   The cervical mucus plug (CMP) acts as a protective barrier by deterring the passage of bacteria into the uterus, and contains a variety of antimicrobial agents, including immunoglobulins, and similar antimicrobial peptides to those found in nasal mucus.The CMP inhibits the migration of vaginal bacteria towards the uterus, protecting against ...

3. Phlegm - Wikipedia

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   Mucus is a normal protective layering around the airway, eye, nasal turbinate, and urogenital tract. Mucus is an adhesive viscoelastic gel produced in the airway by submucosal glands and goblet cells and is principally water. It also contains high-molecular weight mucous glycoproteins that form linear polymers.

4. Got snot? Here's what your mucus tells you about allergies ...

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   Then mucus can help carry pathogens out of your body, whether you blow your nose or cough it up, she says. How to decode your mucus. The color of your mucus can tell you information about your health.

5. Mucopurulent discharge - Wikipedia

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   Mucopurulent discharge is the emission or secretion of fluid containing mucus and pus (muco-pertaining to mucus and purulent pertaining to pus) from the eye, nose, cervix, vagina or other part of the body due to infection and inflammation.

6. Yep, Allergies Might Be to Blame for Your Upset Stomach ... - AOL

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   According to Dr. Clifford Bassett, MD, allergist at NYU Langone Health based in New York City, this accumulated nasal mucus can also lead to excessive coughing, which in rare instances may induce ...

7. Mucus - Wikipedia

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   Nasal mucus may be removed by blowing the nose or by using nasal irrigation. Excess nasal mucus, as with a cold or allergies, due to vascular engorgement associated with vasodilation and increased capillary permeability caused by histamines, [14] may be treated cautiously with decongestant medications. Thickening of mucus as a "rebound" effect ...

8. Curschmann's spirals - Wikipedia

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   They are spiral-shaped mucus plugs from subepithelial mucous gland ducts of bronchi. They may occur in several different lung diseases [1] and may refer to parts of the desquamated epithelium seen in lavages from asthmatic patients. [2] These microscopic casts are named after German physician Heinrich Curschmann (1846-1910).

9. Mucus plug - Wikipedia

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   Mucus plug may refer to: plugging of the bronchioles by mucus; Cervical mucus plug This page was last edited on 18 March 2012, at 02:00 (UTC). Text is available ...