Diagnosis of VVS : With a cotton tip applicator the doctor palpates specific spots around the vestibule that correspond to the mucous secreting glands.
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A few marine annelids that live in tubes lack cuticles, but their tubes have a similar structure, and mucus-secreting glands in the epidermis protect their skins.
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The stems of " Escobaria " range from globose to cylindrical, and lack nectar-secreting glands; while ribs are absent, tubercles are present, tending to become corky and deciduous as they age.
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The disease, which occurs in one out of every 3, 000 births in the U . S . and Europe, involves a mutant gene that affects the body's outward-secreting glands and causes thick, viscous mucus.
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Accumulation of milk and the resulting engorgement are a major trigger of apoptosis, or programmed cell death, that causes involution of the milk-secreting gland, milk resorption, collapse of the alveolar structures, and the cessation of milk production.
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There is a pair of calcium-secreting glands located near the midventral line on the organic material and use this, combined with the calcium secreted by the glands, to form a paste from which the tube is made.
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The larvae are tornaria larvae similar to those of the closely related Enteropneusta, which possess a ciliated band to capture food particles . " Planctosphaera pelagica " is unique in possessing mucus secreting glands around the ciliated band.
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SLS-1 was a nine-day mission during which crew members performed experiments which explored how the heart, blood vessels, lungs, kidneys, and hormone-secreting glands respond to microgravity, the causes of space sickness, and changes in muscles, bones, and cells which occur in humans during space flight.
