Word: mucous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Americans are regular coke users. But the traditional, sniffed "nose candy" is no match for crack. NIDA estimates that an addiction to regular coke develops after three to four years, while crack abusers are usually hooked after only six to ten weeks. A snort of classic coke penetrates the mucous membranes slowly, circulating to the brain in about eight minutes and producing a high, much milder than crack's, that lasts for 20 minutes or so. Crack is absorbed rapidly through the lungs and hits the brain within seconds in a dangerous, concentrated form...
Ignition can occur in various ways. "Snorting," or sniffing the white powder, ensures absorption of the drug into the bloodstream through the mucous membranes. But it also constricts the myriad little blood vessels in these membranes, reduces the blood supply and dries up the nose. With repeated coke use, ulcers form, cartilage is exposed and the nasal septum can be perforated, requiring repairs by plastic surgery. (Savvy users rinse their noses with water after sniffing to wash away the irritants.) To avoid the impurities of street coke and obtain a greater jolt, more users are resorting to freebasing. After dissolving...
...husband so they can be together, and after one botched attempt, they succeed in murdering him in a staged car accident. This gets them in trouble with the law, but with the aid of a serpentine lawyer, they manage to get off. Cain wrote his novel in the mucous-ridden voice of the truly paranoid chain-smoker, and his hard-boiled story was really a then-shocking morality play where morality loses all together. Everyone turns on everyone else; Cora turns on Chambers in court, Chambers cheats on Cora, and eventually Fate turns on both of them...
...nation to ban urea formaldehyde foam, the largest selling type of blown insulation. Public Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette says that "we find there is significant correlation between the foam insulation and such formaldehyde-linked illnesses as respiratory difficulties, eye and skin irritations, headaches, vomiting and severe irritation to the mucous membranes." Massachusetts estimates that some 7,000 houses in the state?and many more across the country?are insulated with formaldehyde. The cost of removing the stuff, where it can be removed, might run from $14,000 to $20,000 per house. The foam industry has filed suit protesting...
Flaky Skin. Close's mixture of size and precision is disorienting. Faces would look like this to a louse, if lice could scan them: a fleshy landscape, dried salt pans of flaky skin, monstrous glittering folds of mucous membrane, each wrinkle a canyon, the nose a mountain, lakes for eyes. The effect is both real and hallucinatory at once, and it has a lot to offer on how we scan, decode and see the most ordinary configurations. Held in memory. Close's por traits marginally change every face one glimpses in the subway, or in a mirror...