Mucous membrane membrane lining body cavities and canals that lead to the outside chiefly the respiratory digestive and urogenital tracts.
Mucus membrane lining the roof of the nose.
Nasal mucus is created within membranes of your nose and sinus passages.
Mucous membranes line many tracts and structures of the body including the mouth nose eyelids trachea windpipe and lungs stomach and intestines and the ureters urethra and urinary bladder.
Your body produces more than a liter of mucus every day whether you re healthy or fighting off a cold.
Mucous membranes contain large numbers of goblet shaped cells that secrete mucus which keeps the surface moist and lubricated.
Nasal mucous membranes are lined with small blood vessels that help to warm and humidify the air you breathe.
Liquid leaks out of the blood vessels making the mucous membranes lining the nose and throat to swell and stimulating nearby gland to produce mucus the olfactory organ is located in the mucous membrane lining the uppermost part of the roof of the nasal cavity.
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It is also thick over the nasal septum where increased numbers of goblet cells produce a greater amount of nasal mucus.
Mucous membrane the lining of most of the body cavities and hollow internal organs such as the mouth the nose the eyelids the intestine and the vagina.
It is one of the most commonly infected tissues in adults and children.
The mucous membrane is thickest and most vascular over the nasal conchae.