Word: mucous
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Swallowed as a tablet or inhaled as a gas, Benzedrine at first shrinks mucous membranes, raises blood pressure, quickens the heart, sharpens the wits. These effects are powerful enough to snap a schizophrenic out of his murky mentality (TIME, Sept. 14). Small doses of the drug maintain his intelligence. Overdoses, such as uninformed college students seem to be using, bring on dangerous after effects...
When receiving nose drops, all children should lie flat on the back and remain there for a few moments while the mucous membranes absorb the medication...
...Johns Hopkins specialists began a new series of tests. A psychiatrist examined the girl and summoned her parents to analyze their mental and emotional makeups. Mary underwent fluoroscopy, blood testing, other examinations. A gynecologist also took her in charge, for the nasal and genital tissues are histologically related. The mucous membranes of the nose swell during sexual excitement. This well-known phenomenon gives rise to a theory that the noses of many little girls become sensitive as they turn into young womanhood, and that this makes such girls sniff, lisp or pamper their noses in an apparently affected manner...
...basis of six years' experiments, Professor Henry Barnett McDonnell, University of Maryland, reported last week that low concentrations of ozone shorten the lives of guinea pigs. "When inhaled in higher concentrations," he said, "it is a violent irritant of the mucous membranes and reacts chemically with the mucus to form a thick froth which . . . stops the air supply to the lungs almost completely in a minute...
...Grant Baldwin of Columbus, Ohio, solved this difficult problem by cutting a channel into the pelvis, lining it with a narrow U-shaped loop of the patient's own intestine. After some time the inner loop of the U was removed, leaving the outer wall to form a mucous membranal tract resembling the normal vagina...