Mucosa

Definition: Mucosa

Mucosa

Noun

1. Mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior.

Specialty Definition: Mucosa

Domain	Definition
Health	A mucous membrane, or tunica mucosa. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Mucosa

Synonym: mucous membrane (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mucosa

English words defined with "mucosa": American leishmaniasis ♦ carcinoid, cervical glands, cervical glands of the uterus ♦ first cranial nerve ♦ glandulae cervicales uteri ♦ intrinsic factor, irregularly ♦ leishmaniasis americana ♦ mucocutaneous leishmaniasis ♦ nasopharyngeal leishmaniasis, nervii olfactorii, New World leishmaniasis ♦ olfactory nerve ♦ vaginal smear. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mucosa": 16,16-Dimethylprostaglandin E2 ♦ Administration, Buccal, Amdinocillin Pivoxil, Arbaprostil, argyria ♦ Bacterial Translocation, Barrett Esophagus, Blade Implantation ♦ Carfecillin, Cholecystokinin, Colitis, Ulcerative ♦ Dental Implantation, Endosseous, Dinoprostone, Diverticulum, Colon ♦ Enterochromaffin Cells, Enterochromaffin-like Cells, Enterocolitis, Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous, Enterocytes, Eosinophilic Granuloma, Esophageal and Gastric Varices ♦ G Cells, Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia, Gastric Mucosa, Gastritis, Hypertrophic, Gastrointestinal Hormones, Gastrospirillum, Giardia lamblia, Gingivitis, Necrotizing Ulcerative, Granuloma, Pyogenic ♦ Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple, Helicobacter heilmannii, Helicobacter Infections ♦ internal haemorrhoids, internal hemorrhoids, Intestinal Polyps ♦ Leishmaniasis, Mucocutaneous, Leukoplakia, Hairy, Leukoplakia, Oral, Lymphoma, Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue ♦ Moniliformis ♦ naevus, Nasal Lavage Fluid, Nasal Polyps, Nasal Provocation Tests ♦ Ophthalmic Nerve ♦ Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome, Peyer's Patches ♦ Sincalide, Sterol O-Acyltransferase, Stromal Cells, Strongyloides stercoralis ♦ Tooth, Unerupted, Tuberculosis, Laryngeal ♦ Vagotomy, Proximal Gastric, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide, vasomotor rhinitis. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mucosa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (mucosa), Dutch (mucosa), Italian (mucosa, mucous membrane), Portuguese (mucosa, mucous membrane), Spanish (mucous membrane).

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Commercial Usage: Mucosa

Domain	Title
Books	Atlas of diseases of the oral mucosa (reference) Attachment of Organisms to the Gut Mucosa (reference) Carbohydrate Expression in the Intestinal Mucosa (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology, and Cell Biology, 160) (reference) Clinical pathology of the oral mucosa (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Mucosa

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	Line drawing showing the lining of the GI tract: colorectal (muscularis). The walls of the digestive tract have four layers of tissue: mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa and serosa. The inner-most layer is the mucosa, a membrane that forms a continuous lining of the GI tract from the mouth to the anus. In the large bowel, this tissue contains cells that produce mucus to lubricate and protect the smooth inner surface of the bowel wall. Connective tissue and muscle separate the muscosa from the second layer, the submucosa, which contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, nerves and mucus-producing glands. Next to the submucosa is the muscularis externa, consisting of two layers of muscle fibers-one that runs lengthwise and one that encircles the bowel. The fourth layer, the serosa, is a thin membrane that produces fluid to lubricate the outer surface of the bowel so that it can slide against adjacent organs. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Marked hemorrhage in mucosa and submucosa with arteriolar degeneration. Credit: CDC.
	Vibrio cholerae is transmitted to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food or water, and produces a cholera toxin, which acts on the intestinal mucosa, and causes severe diarrhea. Credit: CDC.		After initially being ingested in contaminated food such as shellfish, or water, the Salmonella typhi bacteria migrate through the intestinal mucosa of the terminal ileum into the submucosal lymph nodes. Credit: CDC.
	T. vulpis, or "Canine Whipworm", is a parasite that attaches itself to the canine large intestinal mucosa by embedding its head, thereby, causing intestinal inflammation. Credit: CDC.		Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Beach grass, poison ivy, rosy mucosa, and cat-tails. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mucosa

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Retract the buccal mucosa. (references)
		Leukoplakia on left buccal mucosa. (references)
		Inside this tube is a lining called the mucosa. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mucosa

"Mucosa" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mucosa" is used about 1,030 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	1,030	7,208

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Mucosa

Expressions using "mucosa": buccal mucosa ♦ Gastric Mucosa ♦ Intestinal Mucosa ♦ Laryngeal Mucosa ♦ Moehringia mucosa ♦ mucosa graft ♦ Nasal Mucosa ♦ Olfactory Mucosa ♦ Respiratory Mucosa ♦ tunica mucosa. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "mucosa": mucosa-associated, Mucosa-Associated.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mucosa

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
mucosa	32	bucal edema en mucosa	2
bucal mucosa	14	mucosa squamous	2
oral mucosa	12	bucal en mucosa quemaduras	2
buccal mucosa	11	colon mucosa	2
nasal mucosa	5	mucosa vaginal	2
mucosa normal	4	mucosa associated lymphoid tissue	2
gastric mucosa	4	efectos mucosa nicotina oral	2
cancer of the buccal mucosa	4	mucosa neisseria	2
mucosa rectal	4	gut inflammation mucosa sir	2
intestinal mucosa	3	bucal de la mucosa patologias	2
erythematous mucosa	3	duodenal mucosa	2
barretts mucosa	3
		duodenal mucosa	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mucosa

Language		Translations for "mucosa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		mucosa (tunica mucosa). (various references)

Dutch		mucosa. (various references)

Finnish		limakalvoihin liittyvä lymfakudos (mucosa associated lymphoid tissue). (various references)

French		muqueuse (f). (various references)

German		Mukosa (tunica mucosa). (various references)

Greek		βλεννογόνος υμένας. (various references)

Hebrew		רירית. (various references)

Italian		mucosa (mucous membrane). (various references)

Pig Latin		ucosamay

Portuguese		mucosa (mucous membrane). (various references)

Russian		слизистая оболочка (mucous membrane, oral mucosa). (various references)

Spanish		mucosa intestinal (intestinal mucosa), mucosa del estómago (stomach mucosa), mucosa de la cuerda vocal (vocal-fold mucosa), sequedad en la mucosa vocal (dryness in the vocal mucosa), linfoma MALT (mucosa associated lymphoid tissue), hernia mucosa ileocecal (hernia of the ileal mucosa), ectocervix (ectocervical mucosa), desplazamiento de la mucosa de la cuerda vocal (displacement of the vocal cord mucosa), células gástricas principales de Heidenhain (Heidenhain gastric mucosa cell). (various references)

Swedish		mukosa-associerad lymfoid vävnad (mucosa associated lymphoid tissue). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Mucosa

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mucosa": mucosae, mucosal, mucosas. (additional references)
	Words ending with "mucosa": submucosa. (additional references)
	Words containing "mucosa": submucosae, submucosal, submucosas. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mucosa"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mucosa" (pronounced myuwkō"su)
3	-ō" s u	Mimosa, Ponderosa.
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Anagrams: Mucosa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-m-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: comas, musca, sumac.
	-2 letters: amus, cams, coma, macs, moas, mocs, ocas, scam, scum, soma, sumo.
	-3 letters: amu, cam, cos, cum, mac, mas, moa, moc, mos, mus, oca, oms, sac, sau, som, sou, sum.
	-4 letters: am, as, ma, mo, mu, om, os, so, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-m-o-s-u"
	+1 letter: mucosae, mucosal, mucosas.
	+2 letters: accustom, clamours, coassume, leucomas, racemous.
	+3 letters: accustoms, aconitums, autoecism, castoreum, clamorous, coagulums, coassumed, coassumes, cosmonaut, coumarins, coumarous, customary, factotums, glaucomas, guaiocums, malicious, micaceous, molluscan, moustache, muchachos, mustachio, noncampus, outcharms, pomaceous, subatomic, submucosa.
	+4 letters: accustomed, ascogonium, autoecisms, automatics, calamitous, calumnious, castoreums, catamounts, coassuming, communards, commutates, consumable, consummate, cosmonauts, dicumarols, docudramas, eczematous, guacamoles, mendacious, miraculous, monoculars, moustaches, moustachio, mustachios, nonmusical, outmarches, outmatches, scaramouch, scrubwoman, subcompact, submucosae, submucosal, submucosas, supermacho, touchmarks.
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