MUCOUS
\mjˈuːkəs], \mjˈuːkəs], \m_j_ˈuː_k_ə_s]\
Definitions of MUCOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus; "mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine"
By Princeton University
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of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus; "mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to, resembling, or producing, mucus, a sticky fluid given off by the moist lining of the cavities and canals of the human body.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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An epithet for all bodies containing mucilage or mucus. It is, also, sometimes used synomously with gummy. In pathology, it is occasionally employed to express the seat of a disease, as mucous disease, mucous phlegmasis; that is, having its seat in a mucous membrane.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland