Definition of Mucinous

1. Adjective. Relating to or containing mucin.

Partainyms: Mucin
Derivative terms: Mucin

Definition of Mucinous

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to or containing mucin ¹

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Definition of Mucinous

1. mucin [adj] - See also: mucin

Medical Definition of Mucinous

1. Relating to or containing mucin. Synonym: mucoid. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mucinous

mucilaginous gland
mucilaginously
mucilaginousness
mucin
mucin clot test
mucinaemia
mucinase
mucinogen
mucinogen granules
mucinogens
mucinoid
mucinolytic
mucinoses
mucinosis
mucinous (current term)
mucinous carcinoma
mucinous cystic neoplasm of pancreas
mucins
mucinuria
muciparous
muciparous gland
mucitis
mucivore
mucivores
muck
muck about
muck around
muck in

Literary usage of Mucinous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"The mucinous material is usually found in the strema, while the epithelium is compressed into small islands of inactive cells. Much discussion has occurred ..."

2. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"One of the noteworthy changes produced in the media by the growth of the organisms in the asparagin medium was the development of a mucinous-like substance, ..."

3. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"... clear spaces or objects, which have been variously interpreted as stomata, vesicles, or cells that have undergone mucinous degeneration and burst. 2. ..."

4. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1916)
"The capsules of the capsule-forming bacteria contain considerable amounts of a mucinous substance apparently a glyco- protein. Cultures of bacteria which do ..."

5. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1915)
"813 687 Patient with large ovarian cyst 813 688 Pseudo-mucinous cyst, with jelly-like ... 815 690 Lining cells of pseudo-mucinous cyst and of serous cyst ..."

6. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"The mucinous Body of the Bile. The mucinous body which is found in the bladder-bile of all animals is apparently of a different nature in different animals. ..."

7. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"The mucinous material is usually found in the strema, while the epithelium is compressed into small islands of inactive cells. Much discussion has occurred ..."

8. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"One of the noteworthy changes produced in the media by the growth of the organisms in the asparagin medium was the development of a mucinous-like substance, ..."

9. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"... clear spaces or objects, which have been variously interpreted as stomata, vesicles, or cells that have undergone mucinous degeneration and burst. 2. ..."

10. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1916)
"The capsules of the capsule-forming bacteria contain considerable amounts of a mucinous substance apparently a glyco- protein. Cultures of bacteria which do ..."

11. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1915)
"813 687 Patient with large ovarian cyst 813 688 Pseudo-mucinous cyst, with jelly-like ... 815 690 Lining cells of pseudo-mucinous cyst and of serous cyst ..."

12. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"The mucinous Body of the Bile. The mucinous body which is found in the bladder-bile of all animals is apparently of a different nature in different animals. ..."

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