MUCUS
\mjˈuːkəs], \mjˈuːkəs], \m_j_ˈuː_k_ə_s]\
Definitions of MUCUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified 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
- 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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A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
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Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; - improperly so used.
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A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
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Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; - improperly so used.
By Noah Webster.
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The viscous secretion of mucous membranes. It contains mucin, white blood cells, water, inorganic salts, and exfoliated cells.
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The slimy fluid from the nose: the slimy fluid on all the interior canals of the body to moisten them.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A substance, analogous to vegetable mucilage; from which, however, it differs, by affording subcarbonate of ammonia on distillation. Mucus exudes through the skin, in a state of combination with a peculiar oily matter; and, drying, forms the epidermis. It constitutes, in part the different epidermeous productions, as the hair, nails, wool, and horn of animals, feathers of birds, and scales of fish. It is found at the surface of the mucous membranes, and presents some difference in its composition and properties, according to the particular mucous membrane from which it is obtained. its chief organic constituent is an albuminoid compoud, - mucin, mucosin. Mucus preserves the membranes moist, and in a state best fitted for the performance of their functions. The French give the term glaire to the thick, stringy mucus, secreted by the mucous membranes when in a state of disease. When mucus is examined with the microscope it is found to contain numerous epithelial scales or flattened cells; together with round, granular bodies, commonly termed mucous corpuscles or mucous globules, which are contained in a fluid portion- liquor muci.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The clear viscid secretion that lubricates the mucous membranes, consisting of a limpid liquid containing suspended epithelial cells, a few leukocytes, and granular debris. Chemically it consists of water, containing mucin and a small amount of salts.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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