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Lubricating and protective fluid, secreted by mucous membranes in many different parts of the body. In the gut, mucus smooths the passage of food and keeps potentially damaging digestive enzymes away from the gut lining. In the lungs, it traps airborne particles so that they can be expelled.



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The Insler score is a way of scoring the quality of vaginal mucus at ovulation.
Some couples may enhance their probabilities of conception by using aids for selecting tinting of intercourse, such as urine luteinizing hormone (LH) testing or urinary estrogen metabolite testing (both available over the counter) or monitoring signs of fertility, such as vaginal mucus discharge or basal body temperature (Stanford et al.
Menstrual cycles can be erratic, but the book explains in great detail how to keep a menstrual chart, so I took my temperature every morning with a basal thermometer and marked it on the chart and duly checked the vaginal mucus.
 
 
 
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