The small intestine was gained to make microtome section and mucous membrane of small intestine morphology, trophonema altitude, thickness and crypt shade were observed under light microscope.
The skin and mucous membranes covering the body or lining its openings offer considerable resistance to invasion by bacteria and other infectious organisms.
The larynx is also called the voice box because it contains the vocal cords, which are two folds of mucous membrane that can open and close like curtains.
That's why they say to try and never touch your face, since the mucous membranes of your eyes, nose, and mouth act like shuttles to the hitchhiking germ.
When the stomach is empty, the mucous membranes lining its walls are highly folded; buried within these folds, or rugae, are numerous digestive glands.
When we breathe, air enters our nose and passes through four chambers called sinuses where the air gets warmed up, humidified, and filtered by mucous membranes.
The facial nerve also innervates the sublingual and submandibular glands, which secrete saliva, as well as the lacrimal gland which produces tears, and mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, and nasopharynx.
Pollen from trees and grass, and mold spores from tiny fungi find their way into your mucous membranes and your body attacks these innocuous travelers the same way it would infectious bacteria.
The first is skin, eye, or mucous membrane infection, where lesions pop up 1-2 weeks after delivery typically at sites of damaged skin like the site where fetal scalp electrodes may have been attached.
Were you to insert a gastroscope into someone's stomach so that you could see their stomach lining, you could actually see the mucous membrane turn red with irritation upon drinking coffee sweetened with sugar.
Your saliva also carries information about who you are, your level of health.and mucous membranes in our mouth are permeable to hormones like testosterome, making a kiss a way to taste test a potential mate.
A more direct route is insufflation - or snorting it - because the drug is rapidly absorbed through the mucous membranes of the nasal passages, or smoking it so the drug can be absorbed through the lungs.