Mucilage Sentence Examples

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  • Lemon juice is fermented for some time to free it from mucilage, then boiled 2 Cf.

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  • In other cases the mucilage is denser and the branches more closely compacted (Helminthora).

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  • When it persists as a massive element of the seed its nutritive function is usually apparent, for there is accumulated within its cells reserve-food, and according to the dominant substance it is starchy, oily, or rich in cellulose, mucilage or proteid.

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  • The mucilage must be acidulated with hydrochloric acid before dialysing, to set free the gummic acid.

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  • The value of the city's factory products in 1905 was $13,879,159, the principal items being rubber and elastic goods ($3,635,211) and boots and shoes ($2,044,250) The manufacture of stoves, and of mucilage and paste are important industries.

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  • For attaching it to the paper a strong mucilage of gum tragacanth, containing an eighth of its weight of spirit of wine, answers best.

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  • The treatment is to wash out the stomach or give such an emetic as apomorphine, and, when the stomach has been emptied, to administer demulcents such as white of egg or mucilage.

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  • The volatile oil - oleum cubebae - is also official, and is the form in which this drug is most commonly used, the dose being 5 to 20 minims, which may be suspended in mucilage or given after meals in a cachet.

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  • Chinese galls examined by Viedt 12 yielded 72% of tannin, and less mucilage than Aleppo galls.

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  • As in other cell-walls, so here the older membranes may be altered by deposits of various substances, such as resin, calcium oxalate, colouring matters; or more profoundly altered throughout, or in definite layers, by lignification, suberization (Trametes, Daedalea), or swelling to a gelatinous mucilage (Tremella, Gymnosporangium), while cutinization of the outer layers is common.

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  • The mucilage surrounding endospores of Mucor, conidia of Empusa, &c., serves to gum the spore to animals.

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  • Such filaments may not give rise to mucilage on the I.

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  • While there is a general tendency in the group to mucilaginous degeneration of the cell-wall, in Laminaria digitata there are also glands secreting a plentiful mucilage.

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  • An orchis found in the mountain yields the dried tuber which affords the nutritious mucilage called salep; a good deal of this goes to India.

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  • From the seeds have been obtained starch (about 14%), gum, mucilage, a non-drying oil, phosphoric acid, salts of calcium, saponin, by boiling which with dilute hydrochloric or sulphuric acid aesculic acid is obtained, quercitrin, present also in the fully developed leaves, aescigenin, C12H2n02, and aesculetin, C 9 H 6 O 4, which is procurable also, but in small quantity only, from the bark.

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  • They are entirely soluble or soften in water, and form with it a thick glutinous liquid or mucilage.

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  • It gives with water a somewhat stronger mucilage than gum arabic, from which it is distinguished by its clear interior, fewer cracks and greater toughness.

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  • With water it swells by absorption, and with even fifty times its weight of that liquid forms a thick mucilage.

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  • It occurs in shiny reddish lumps, resembling the commoner kinds of gum arabic. With water, in which it is only partially soluble, it forms a thick mucilage.

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  • Usnea also contains mucilage, which may be helpful in easing irritating coughs.

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  • Longer distance transport is facilitated by the thin layer of sticky mucilage that is formed when the seeds are moistened.

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  • Around the filet is the mucilage and the outer rind, this contains 12.4% solids.

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  • Numerous other substances are also found in the cytoplasm, such as tannin, fats and oil, resins, mucilage, caoutchouc, guttapercha, sulphur and calcium oxalate crystals.

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  • It contains mucilage, which heals and repairs most tissues in the body which accounts for the tea's various usage.

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  • In addition to mucilage, it also contains a lot of tannins which can shrink tissue inflammation.

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  • Slippery elm contains mucilage, which is an ingredient also found in psyllium, that is mixed with water to form a thick paste.

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  • Slippery elm contains an ingredient called mucilage that is a binding agent.

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  • Lozenges containing slippery elm help coat the throat due to the ingredient mucilage and the effects typically last for an hour or more.

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  • The mucilage also acts as an expectorant which helps break up any mucous that is present.

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  • Slippery Elm Bark - Slippery elm bark has been used medicinally primarily for its mucilage properties.

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  • The multicellular species consist of filaments, branched or unbranched, which arise by the repeated divisions of the cells in parallel planes, no formation of mucilage occurring in the dividing walls.

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  • The mucilage may also form an embedding substance similar to that of Chroococcaceae, in which the filaments lie parallel or radiate from a common centre (Rivulariaceae).

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  • Yet the siphonaceous algae may assume or be loosely aggregated together within a common mucilage, or be great variety of form and reach a high degree of differentiation.

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  • Among those Desmidiaceae which live a free life, two plants become surrounded by a common mucilage, in which they lie either parallel (Closterium) or crosswise (Cosmarium).

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  • Cryptomonas, when dividing in a mucilage after encystment, recalls the condition in Gloeocystis.

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  • In Batrachospermum filaments arise from the carpogonium on all sides; in Chantransia and Scinaia on one side only; in Helminthora the filaments are enclosed in a dense mucilage; in Nemalion, prior to the formation of the filaments, a sterile segment is cut off below.

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  • The occurrence of a plentiful mucilage in many freshwater forms is, however, doubtless a provision against desiccation on exposure.

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  • The seeds when placed in water for some time become coated with glutinous matter from the exudation of the mucilage in the external layer of the epidermis; and by boiling in sixteen parts of water they exude sufficient mucilage to form with the water a thick pasty decoction.

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