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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 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
- 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 Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to or resembling mucus; slimy; viscous; secreting mucus. Mucous membrane, a membranous lining of the canals and cavities of the body.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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
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