What is the function for mucous?

Answer 1

It's function is to produce mucus. Mucous cells secrete products that are rich in glycoproteins and water. In vertebrates, mucus is a slippery secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes. Mucous fluid is typically produced from mucous cells found in mucous glands.

Answer 2

Mucous through the body usually has one or more of three functions. It can be to protects the tissues it covers, it can be to lubricate movement, it can be to facilitate diffusion (in the lungs) or it can contain enzyms.

Answer 3

Mucosa is tissue lining some organs and body cavities such as the nose, mouth, lungs, and digestive tract. Glands in this mucosa make a thick fluid called mucus. In the digestive system, mucus acts as a lubricant allowing food to smoothly pass along the digestive tract. In the stomach and intestinal tract, mucus also prevents digestive enzymes from eating the internal lining of the organs. In the oral cavity and esophagus, the mucosa functions to protect the underlying tissue from mechanical damage and from the entry of microorganisms and toxic materials

Answer 4

It is produced by all body systems which have an outlet to the outside.

This means that your digestive, respiratory, urinary and reproductive systems all produce this sticky stuff.

Any others produce a watery substance called serous fluid. These serous systems are always sterile and the others are not.

Mucous has a job of trapping bacteria, pollen or even insects as it tries to prevent them from entering the body.

Answer 5

I know that one is for the protection from germs going through the nasal cavity. The other one i don't know. For parrotfish, its their bed and protection.

Answer 6

Two functions of mucus is that it filters and moistens air