Word: mucus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vigorous stomach contractions caused Tom to suffer cramping "hunger" pains. Pinches and pricking and electric shocks sufficient to cause intense pain to a man's skin had no effect on Tom's gastric mucosa. But when a spot on his stomach lining was stripped of its protecting mucus and sprinkled with mustard, it became very sensitive. Strong pressure with a glass rod or from a balloon inflated in his stomach to 1,500 cc. gave Tom a stomachache...
...doctors found out some new things about ulcers by producing a small ulcer on a bit of exposed stomach membrane. Mucus protects healthy stomach walls from being digested by their own juices, but this area did not have much mucus, and an ulcer developed when the doctors merely dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further...
Ashore, the Commandos began the long, exhausting climb to the mountain top, beyond which lay the bridge they must destroy. Soon their cheeks were "streaked to the neck with charcoaled sweat, and the neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish...
...nose. These bony caverns are called the frontal, maxillary or antrum, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses. They open into each half of the nasal cavity, like rooms off a corridor. Each sinus is lined with delicate membranes, which are furred with tiny hairs (cilia) and covered with sheets of warm mucus...
...sinuses are useful for: 1) warming up cold air before it reaches the lungs; 2) engulfing bacteria in germ-repelling mucus; 3) acting as a sounding board for the voice. Infections of the sinus mem branes are caused by a number of bacteria, including the staphylococci, streptococci, pneumococci...