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However, secretions from the trees' roots stimulate the germination of the witchweed seeds before crop planting.
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But in cystic fibrosis, a defective gene causes the secretions to become thick and sticky.
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One is tilting the bed to 30 degrees, so secretions are less likely to bubble into the lungs.
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The disease is transmitted through the infected bird's saliva, nasal secretions or feces.
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One Stanford study asked subjects to imagine that they were eating, and their secretions of gastric acid increased by 70%.
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He considered how thoughts and emotions were simply secretions of the brain.
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If acid secretions are normal, or if they don't correlate with the patient's symptoms, it is a strong clue that the heartburn has another cause.
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"They are good for opening outlets for various secretions as well as haemorrhoids, and they are used as suppositories, pilled and dipped in olive oil, " Dioscorides wrote.
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Every day for at least 30 days, the participants inspected themselves for symptoms and collected a swab of genital secretions, which were stored and later tested in a lab.
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Patients who are ill should be asked to wear a surgical mask to contain their secretions, he says, and they should use tissues and wash their hands frequently to prevent touch contamination.
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The researchers measured everything from symptoms to the weight of nasal secretions (discarded tissues were weighed in a plastic bag, and the weight of the tissue and bag subtracted) to determine who became infected.
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Patients with CF at Fairview got the same things that patients everywhere got some nebulized treatments to loosen secretions and unclog passageways (a kind of mist tent in a mouth pipe), antibiotics, and a good thumping on their chests every day.
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