If its thorax is pinched, it also squirts a clear viscous mucus with unpleasant smell and a bitter taste, faintly alkaline, with many embedded bubbles.
A few cryptomonads, such as Cryptomonas, can form palmelloid stages, but readily escape the surrounding mucus to become free-living flagellates again.
Stefan Gates in his book Gastronaut discusses eating dried nasal mucus, and says that 44% of people he questioned said they had eaten their own dried nasal mucus in adulthood and said they liked it.
Dipping tobacco, which affects the mucus membrane lining in the mouth and will cause receding gums over time
This song is referenced in the full title of "Nazareth (Blumen my ass)" from Planet Punk, which is about solving world hunger by eating mucus.
Ween's "Help Me Scrape the Mucus Off My Brain" from their album, 12 Golden Country Greats, is not technically a cover but is clearly inspired by "If We Make It Through December" in its instrumental arrangements and song structure.
Ciliary action pushes the mucus in a film over the surface of the gill slits, trapping suspended food particles as it does so.
Fish scales are a surprisingly nutritional food source, containing layers of keratin and enamel, as well as a dermal portion and a layer of protein-rich mucus.
The 1968 Mothers of Invention song "Let's Make The Water Turn Black" tells a true story of an adolescent acquaintance of composer Frank Zappa who habitually saved his own extracted mucus on the pane of his bedroom window.
Operculum (in pregnancy), the cervical mucus plug that blocks the cervix of the uterus after conception
Worm is a mutate who secretes mucus that allows him to override other living beings' motor and autonomic nervous functions after coating them with it.
Symptoms may range from mild abdominal discomfort to full-blown dysentery characterized by cramps, diarrhea, with slimy-consistent stools, fever, blood, pus, or mucus in stools or tenesmus.