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mucous, a.|ˈmjuːkəs|
[ad. L. mūcōsus, f. mūc-us mucus; see -ous. Cf. F. muqueux, Sp., Pg. mucoso, mocoso, It. mucoso.]
1. Containing, consisting of, or resembling mucus. In early quots. with wider sense: Slimy.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 158 It hath in the tongue a spongy and mucous extremity, whereby..it inviscates..insects. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 194 We shall perceive its whole surface..covered with a mucous fluid. 1851Woodward Mollusca i. 50 The eggs..of the fresh-water species are soft, mucous, and transparent. 1871T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. §2290 (ed. 4) 834 The lingual mucous lining seems to be perfectly adapted to gustation. 1878Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. 485 The Mucous or Viscous Fermentation, i.e. a fermentation characterized by the formation of gummy matters.
2. Characterized by the presence of mucus. Also, in Auscultation, mucous râle, a sound indicating a mucous condition of the lung.
1825Good Study Med. (ed. 2) III. 381 Mucous piles. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 91 A chronic mucous catarrh. 1897Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. IX. 170 Large number of coarse mucous râles made the first probable.
3. Bot. Covered with a viscous secretion or with a coat readily soluble in water.
1839Lindley Introd. Bot. iii. Gloss. (ed. 3) 471 Mucous or slimy; covered with a slimy secretion. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 350 Stratiotes aloides... Seeds with a mucous coat. 1882–4Cooke Brit. Fresh-w. Algæ I. 179 Hormiscia zonata..More or less bright green, mucous.
4. Special collocations. mucous canal Ichthyology, one of the canals by which mucus is excreted along the lateral line. mucous corpuscle, one of numerous transparent corpuscles, with a cell-wall, a nucleus, and a number of minute moving molecules in the mucous liquid of the mouth. mucous exudation, the exudation of mucus mixed with inflammatory matter, from the surface of an inflamed mucous membrane. mucous gland, any gland connected with a mucous surface. mucous layer = mesoblast. mucous ligament, a ligament traversing the synovial cavity of the knee. mucous membrane, the internal prolongation of the skin, having the surface covered with mucus. mucous tissue, gelatinous connective tissue.
1875Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 762/1 Symmetrically disposed grooves, the so-called ‘*mucous canals’.
1856Griffith & Henfrey Microgr. Dict. 443 *Mucous corpuscles.
1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 257 *Mucous exudation is sometimes not to be distinguished from normal mucus.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., The third *mucous gland. 1872T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (1876) I. 492 The Mucous Glands of the Lip.
1846Carpenter Princ. Hum. Physiol. (ed. 3) Index, *Mucous layer of germinal membrane.
1891Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v., *Mucous ligament of knee.
1812J. Jackson in Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. (1897) IX. 12 The *mucous membrane of the stomach. 1881Mivart Cat 21 Inside the lips and mouth it becomes soft and moist, and is termed mucous membrane.
1845Encycl. Metrop. VII. 217 The term ‘*mucous tissue or mucous membrane’, commonly applied by anatomists to the internal lining of all the canals and cavities. 1882Quain's Anat. (ed. 9) II. 69 Connective tissue of this nature is known as jellylike or mucous tissue.
Hence † ˈmucousness = mucosity.
1727Bailey vol. II, Mucousness, snottiness. 1755Johnson, Mucousness,..slime; viscosity. |