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He had a remittent chronic intestinal catarrh, with—noticeably during the periods of exacerbation—abundant discharge of a glairy mucus.
From The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig
The glairy fluid which is secreted by mucous membranes, and which serves to keep them in a moist condition.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
They leave a glairy trail everywhere they go.
From The Romantic by May Sinclair
Albumen, a glairy substance a constituent of plants and animals, and found nearly pure in the white of an egg or in the serum of the blood.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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
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