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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before an aromatic molecule can be detected, it must first be dissolved in the mucus .
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Blow your nose by holding one nostril shut and forcing the mucus to shoot out the other.
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But even this normally impervious mucus is easily breached by ethanol.
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It has also been proposed that H pylori ammonia production will lead to mucosal damage by denaturing the protective mucus layer.
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Ropy, yellow or green mucus with rattling in the chest.
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Terrestrial amphibians respire through their skin and to do this must keep it moist with mucus .
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The latter is characterized by blood and mucus in the stools.
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Will the virus attach to lung cells in cystic fibrosis patients, who typically have lots of mucus in their lungs?