Word: mucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Timer works by measuring the viscosity of a woman's cervical mucus, which becomes "fluid and watery during ovulation," Shapiro said...
...device can also reveal that the source of a woman's infertility is a "thick-mucus syndrome" that sperm cannot penetrate, he added. Once identified, this syndrome can be combatted with medical treatment or artificial insemination...
Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon's first view of the Yãnomamõ Indians was partially obscured by a number of drawn arrows aimed at his face. The archers had huge wads of green tobacco jammed between their teeth and lower lips. Long streams of green mucus hung from their noses-the normal flow from a hallucinogenic drug that makes the normally aggressive Yãnomamõ even more touchy and menacing...
...TAKE A LOOK at the picture of this subject," Flanagan told the jury in his closing arguments. "Is this just a specimen? Are you speaking about a blob, a big glob of mucus?" The crux of his summation was that the fetus Edelin killed had been an independent human begin with "the right to live in society" under the protection of its law. Flanagan told the jurors that the only difference between the fetus and "normal human beings" were it weight and its cause of death...