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Worms are sometimes voided, and glairy hairy Humours, resembling Pieces or Peelings of Guts, and sometimes Clots of Blood.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
The parasite develops within the living cells of the plant, forming a glairy mass of protoplasm known as the plasmodium, the form of which alters from time to time.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
The smooth, rounded head of the thighbone, moist with glairy fluid, fits so perfectly into the smooth, rounded cavity which receives it, that it holds firmly by suction, or atmospheric pressure.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
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 Miller, Frank E.
The edges are raised and indurated; and the discharge is thick, glairy, and peculiarly offensive.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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