Sentences with phrase «called mucosae»

The cords, two flexible bands of muscle lined with delicate tissue called mucosae, resonate in response to energy from the airflow.

It's covered with a moist tissue called the mucosa, which contains hundreds of little bumps, or papillae — they hold the taste buds that allow us to differentiate between sweet, bitter, salty and sour tastes (there is a fifth taste, called umami, associated with tasting glutamate).

Special cells and glands found in the thin lining (called the mucosa or mucous membrane) of body cavities and passageways leading out of the body regularly produce the slippery stuff.

Turbinates, which are scrolls of bone, are covered with pink tissue called mucosa.

Not exact matches

Peering down the twin barrels of West's microscope, I could see that almost the entire mucosa — the inner lining — of the specimen was dead, although most of the main layer of encircling muscle, called the muscularis propria, was still within the definition of being viable.

There was one other interesting finding: Certain chemicals called parabens, commonly found in moisturizers and other skin care products, were found to inhibit the growth of R. mucosa.

Introduction: Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), previously called immotile cilia syndrome (ICS), is a divers group of inherited structural and functional abnormalities affecting the cilia of the respiratory tract mucosa and other organs which results mainly in recurrent respiratory tract infections.