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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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A journey through slime

Did you know that slime cells signal to each other and seek out multiple partners? Welcome to bath time with Abi Palmer – and some revolting yet awe-inspiring grey slime.

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The leukaemia diagnosis I didn’t see coming

Treatment for leukaemia kept journalist Hannah Partos in isolation, like the female prisoner whose image inspired her to write this piece.

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Pain and the power of touch

As a new physiotherapist, Fiona Murphy quickly learned that her patients’ pain was unpredictable and very personal. But using the right words became the key to helping them.

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  • Adult lungworms in frothy mucus.
  • Bronchus, mucus and dust particle, SEM
  • String of mucus from cow's vagina
  • SEM human bronchus,mucus plugging,stereo,LH
  • Tongue diagnosis chart: Red; white coating; stringy mucus
  • SEM dust & mucus on bronchus,stereo.,LH
  • SEM dust & mucus on bronchus,stereo.,RH
  • Anal mucus : arse facts 4, top's tip / GMFA.
  • Anal mucus : arse facts 4, top's tip / GMFA.
  • Drawing of the 1918 Influenza: Trachea showing particular retention of epithelium, by, and in the neighbourhood of duet [?] of one of the mucus glands.
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