When you hear the words mucus and snot, you might think of colds, snails or drooling babies. But the runny, sometimes sticky substance often plays a vital role in our lives, and mucus also has the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Airways with mucus plugs have thicker epithelium, basement membranes and smooth muscle than unplugged airways.

A 30-year-old woman produced a single mass of gray material from her nose during a particularly forceful sneeze several hours before presenting to our clinic. She asked that the material be submitted ...