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Definition of Mucins
1. mucin [n] - See also: mucin
Medical Definition of Mucins
1. A secretion containing mucopolysaccharides and protein that is the chief constituent of mucus. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mucins
Literary usage of Mucins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"mucins are especially abundant in the snail, the mantle and foot ... The method
used for the preparation of mucins varies with the material treated, ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"mucins are especially abundant in the snail, the mantle and foot containing two
distinct varieties. The method used for the preparation ..."
3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"In this last feature para-mucin resembles the true mucins and differs from
pseudo-mucin. ... Glucosamin occurs in para-mucins as it does in other ..."
4. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"In their natural condition, the mucins are soluble in a 10% solution of common
salt, but they become insoluble after precipitation by an acid. ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"In their natural condition, the mucins are soluble in a 10% solution of common
salt, but they become insoluble after precipitation by an acid. ..."
6. Chemistry of the Proteids by Gustav Mann (1906)
"In this last feature para-mucin resembles the true mucins and differs from
pseudo-mucin. ... Glucosamin occurs in para-mucins as it does in other ..."
7. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1900)
"The true mucins are characterized by their natural solution, or one prepared by
the aid of a trace of alkali, being mucilaginous, thread-like,, ..."
8. A Text-book of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1898)
"So much is sure, that mucins or nearly related bodies occur widely ... True mucins.
Thus far we have been able to obtain only a few mucins in a pure and ..."
9. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"mucins are especially abundant in the snail, the mantle and foot ... The method
used for the preparation of mucins varies with the material treated, ..."
10. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"mucins are especially abundant in the snail, the mantle and foot containing two
distinct varieties. The method used for the preparation ..."
11. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"In this last feature para-mucin resembles the true mucins and differs from
pseudo-mucin. ... Glucosamin occurs in para-mucins as it does in other ..."
12. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1913)
"In their natural condition, the mucins are soluble in a 10% solution of common
salt, but they become insoluble after precipitation by an acid. ..."
13. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1913)
"In their natural condition, the mucins are soluble in a 10% solution of common
salt, but they become insoluble after precipitation by an acid. ..."
14. Chemistry of the Proteids by Gustav Mann (1906)
"In this last feature para-mucin resembles the true mucins and differs from
pseudo-mucin. ... Glucosamin occurs in para-mucins as it does in other ..."
15. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1900)
"The true mucins are characterized by their natural solution, or one prepared by
the aid of a trace of alkali, being mucilaginous, thread-like,, ..."
16. A Text-book of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1898)
"So much is sure, that mucins or nearly related bodies occur widely ... True mucins.
Thus far we have been able to obtain only a few mucins in a pure and ..."
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