Glairy

Quick meaning: Glairy is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Of or pertaining to glair; slimy, viscous and transparent.

Meaning

(obsolete) Of or pertaining to glair; slimy, viscous and transparent.

Example Sentences

When both lips were excoriated, and the cervical canal blocked with glairy mucus, the numbness and tingling was still confined to one thigh, most commonly the left, while there was pain on deep pressure in the pelvis confined to that side.

I have in no case of stomach affection attended with discharge of white glairy fluid, whether depending upon a functional or organic cause, observed the colour to change to brown, or even in consistence to assume the completely watery character of the dark fluids vomited in scirrhus pylorus.

Black vomit is nothing but a hœmorrhage from the stomach, and may exist in any degree, from a few particles of blood mixed, as it were, into a quantity of light glairy fluid, presenting the appearance of floating dark specks or flocculi, to that of a rapid and profuse discharge of pure red blood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glareous, gliddery, glib, gluggy, glibbery, glazy.

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