Definition of Mucosity

1. n. The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness.

Definition of Mucosity

1. Noun. The state of being mucous ¹

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Definition of Mucosity

1. the state of being mucous [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mucosity

mucosal disease
mucosal disease virus
mucosal folds of gallbladder
mucosal graft
mucosal relief radiography
mucosal tunics
mucosanguineous
mucosas
mucose
mucosectomy
mucoserous
mucoserous cells
mucositides
mucosities
mucositis
mucosity (current term)
mucostatic
mucotomy
mucous
mucous cast
mucous cell
mucous colitis
mucous connective tissue
mucous cyst
mucous diarrhoea
mucous gland
mucous glands of auditory tube
mucous membrane of tympanic cavity
mucous membranes

Literary usage of Mucosity

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... mucosity of catarrh, the false membrane of croup and the excretion of muguet, as but alterations of the same excretion, which vary only with respect to ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"their substance a mucosity, which forms itself into a membrane, and entirely envelopes them *. M. Bory de St Vincent has continued to occupy himself with ..."

3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1828)
"their substance a mucosity, which forms itself into a membrane, and entirely envelopes them *. M. Bory de St Vincent has continued to occupy himself with ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"... mucosity of catarrh, the false membrane of croup and the excretion of muguet, as but alterations of the same excretion, which vary only with respect to ..."

5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"their substance a mucosity, which forms itself into a membrane, and entirely envelopes them *. M. Bory de St Vincent has continued to occupy himself with ..."

6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1828)
"their substance a mucosity, which forms itself into a membrane, and entirely envelopes them *. M. Bory de St Vincent has continued to occupy himself with ..."

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