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Mucous Mucus
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ MUCOUS  see> MUCUS
~ MUCUS  VISCOUS or VISCID SLIMY SLY
!!^u     STICKY WATERY SECRETION
  CONTAINING MUCINE or MUCIN
  consider KID  KIDDING and other derogatory
  ideas of CHILDREN linked to MUCUS and STENCH
  sp MOCO   = MUCUS                   see> GUM
     MOCOSO   CHILD or KID or GOAT as if to
              imply    SLIMY SNIFFLES  sug> SLICK
  note SNAIL  SLIME    HIGHLY MOCOUS   see> RESIN
  ukr         SLIMAK   SNAIL           sug> SLIP
              SLUNA    SALIVA          sug> SPIT
  biol> MUCOUS IS IMPORTANT            sug> SNOUT
        A FAT FREE LUBRICANT           sug> SMEAR
  OF MANY CAVITIES LINED BY A MUCOSA   sug> SNIFF
  AS THE ORAL NASAL or VAGINAL
  BRONCHIAL  SINUS SYSTEMS
  note MUCUS CONTAINS IMPORTANT ENZYMES and
       PROTECTIVE CELLS CONTAINING
  MUCOPOLYSACHARIDES or MPS WHICH
  REPRESENT A GROUP OF VARIABLE POLYSACCHARIDES
  ALL HAVE A CORE OF HEXOSAMINE WHICH IS
  THE MAIN COMPONENT AND IS MODIFIED
  TO MAKE VARIOUS TYPES OF GLYCOPROTEINS
  med> MUCUS AND SALIVA LUBRICATE MUCOUS CAVITIES
       note the ORAL GINGIVA
  ABNORMAL MUCUS CAUSES A SERIES OF DISORDERS
  INCLUDING CYSTIC FIBROSIS or MUCOVISCIDOSIS
  DUE TO ELEVATED VISCOSITY or
  ABNORMAL DEGRADATION OF MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES
  LEADING TO GRADUAL DEGENERATION OF THE BRAIN
  AND OTHER ORGAN AND BODY SYSTEMS
  SUCH SYNDROMES INCLUDE THE HUNTER  HURLER
  SCHEIE  MORQUIO MAROTEAYX LAMY  SAN FILLIPO and
  OTHER DISEASE also collectively known as
  MPS TYPES I  II  III  etc
  note SLEAZY SLY SLIP SLICK SLIME SNAIL relate to
       MUCUS MUCOUS MOCOSA GUM GINGIVA and also with
  see> SNIFF SNOUT SNOTTY as well as
       CHILD  KID and even CHEWING GUM
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