Normally you hold about half a liter of fluid in your lungs, so when you sneeze, you're able to spray as much as a water bottle's worth of mucus into the air around you.
Cavity embalming is the second part of preparing a body in which we want to puncture all the hollow organs and then drain out all the goo and nastiness that wants to live in there.
The mucociliary escalator consists of mucus that traps invaders and tiny hairs called cilia that carry the mucus toward the mouth, where it can be coughed out.
Like, the authors of a November 2020 paper in Frontiers in Immunology hypothesize that some people do a better job of creating a defensive coating of mucus in their nasopharynx.
Just hearing the word is enough to make some people uneasy, but science tells us that mucus is our friend. New research has found that health benefits can come from mucus and viruses.
So these airborne pizza molecules — many of which are just broken-off parts of fats and proteins — land on your olfactory epithelium and dissolve in the mucus that coats it.
For humans, dry air means dehydrated mucus and drier nostrils and airways, which could make it easier for the viruses to make themselves at home once they're passed to us.
On the far eastern edge of Long Island, New York, there's a very peculiar farm that produces a lot of slime, and it's inspiring scientists to make futuristic materials.
Occasionally in the sputum there might be curschmann spirals, which are spiral shaped mucus plugs or basically elongated mucous casts from small bronchi of people with bronchial asthma.