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The colloid exudations are glairy, semi-solid, jelly-like masses, infiltrating the tissues.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
It becomes softened as the result of congestion, and the glands are more active, secreting a thick glairy mucus.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
They all repeated the word in tones of conviction—that word which they usually cast at the very worst smudges, at the pale, cold, glairy painting of daubers.
From His Masterpiece by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Its function is that of supplying the involved passages with moisture, and it secretes a glairy or watery substance called mucus.
From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Frank E. Miller
If they had visited Mr. Anthony's upper rooms, they would have seen a row of young women before certain broad, shallow pans filled with the glairy albumen which once enveloped those potential fowls.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 by Various
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