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n. - Mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior.

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  • With experience, I found the same features in the mucosa from the corpus, usually much more mild, superficial and focal than the antrum.
  • A bird that makes it nest by disgorging a kind of mucosa that solidfies on a cave wall, into which it's eggs are laid.
  • · Remove the fragments and do not damage the mucosa.
  • If Naegleria invades living mucosa he becomes a parasite.
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