MUCILAGE
\mjˈuːsɪlɪd͡ʒ], \mjˈuːsɪlɪdʒ], \m_j_ˈuː_s_ɪ_l_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of MUCILAGE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.
By Oddity Software
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An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.
By Noah Webster.
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Substances that cause the adherence of two surfaces. They include glues (properly collagen-derived adhesives), mucilages, sticky pastes, gums, resins, or latex.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Mucilago.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A substance produced in cell-walls of certain plants due to changes in the cellulose or pectose constituents, causing exudations of gum when degeneration of the cell-wall is excessive.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A mixture of gum and a small quantity of matter analogous to mucus, which is found in abundance in linseed, quince-seed, &c. It is obtained by beating in water the parts, or products, of plants which contain it. It is much used in the preparation of emollient cataplasms and the greater part of the demulcent tisanes, (F.) Hydroles, Hydrolites.
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See Liquor sanguinis- m. Adrogant, Mucilago astragali tragacanthae- m. de gomme Adragante, Mucilago astragali tragacanthae- m. de gomme Arabique, Mucilago acaciae.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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