2007-02-01 23:32:18 · 9 answers · asked by BTH L 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Are you serious....?!
2007-02-01 23:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by Kitty? 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Mucus
To understand what boogers are, you need to know about mucus (say: myoo-kus). Mucus is the sticky, slimy stuff that's made inside your nose. If you're like lot of kids, you have another name for nose mucus: snot. Your nose makes about a cupful (about 237 milliliters) of snot every day.
Mucus has a pretty important job - it protects the lungs. When you breathe in air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny things, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get irritated or infected, making it be tough to breathe. Luckily, snot helps trap this stuff, keeping it in the nose and out of the lungs.
After this stuff gets stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds it and some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia (say: sih-lee-uh). These hairs help move the mucus and the trapped stuff toward the front of the nose or the back of the throat. When the mucus, dirt and other debris dry and clump together, you're left with a booger. Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. Everybody gets them, so they're not a big deal. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working the way it should!
If you have to get rid of boogers, your best bet is to blow 'em out of your nose and into a tissue. Picking your nose isn't a great idea because boogers contain lots of germs and because poking around in your nose can make it bleed.
2007-02-01 23:59:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
RE: Is there a medical term for eye boogers? I call them eye boogers, what is the real term to say when you wake up from sleeping and you have that crusty stuff on your eyes?
2016-05-24 04:46:06 · answer #3 · answered by Stella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In medical terminology a booger is a rhinolith
2007-02-01 23:36:08 · answer #4 · answered by ben wa 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
nasal mucus is the correct answer rhinolith is a calculus present in the nasal cavity Nasal mucus is a booger not rhinolith
2007-02-01 23:36:26 · answer #5 · answered by ♫Rock'n'Rob♫ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Solidified nasal mucus.
Rhinolith (indicated above) is not the correct term.
2007-02-02 00:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by Ben C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you want a correct term it would be: "incipated nasal mucous".
2007-02-02 09:46:31 · answer #7 · answered by a simple man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nose ball
2007-02-01 23:56:19 · answer #8 · answered by booge 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mucus
I perfer snot though.
2007-02-01 23:43:26 · answer #9 · answered by FaerieWhings 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋