Mucous

Definition: Mucous

Mucous

Adjective

1. Of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus; "mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine".

Date "mucous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Mucous \Mu"cous\, adjective. [Latin expression mucosus, from mucus mucus.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Mucous

Domain	Definition
Medicine	Pertaining to or secreting mucus. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Mucous

Synonym: mucose (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Mucous

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Semiliquidity	Gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby; lentous, pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous; gummy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mucous

English words defined with "mucous": Mucous patches, mucous secretion. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mucous": Acetylcysteine, Angioneurotic Edema, Aphthous Stomatitis ♦ Bianchi fold, Bianchi valve, Bianchi's fold, bowen, Bowen disease, Bowen's disease ♦ Candidiasis, Chronic Mucocutaneous, Choroid Plexus Papilloma, Colonic Polyps, cosmetic product, Cruveilhier's valve, cyanemia, cyanoderma ♦ DEET, Diphenylamine, Diverticulum, Stomach ♦ Emollients, endocervical curettage, Endometrial Neoplasms, Ether, Ethyl, Ethylene Chlorohydrin, Expectorants ♦ Gastric exclusion, Giardia lamblia ♦ Haemophilus influenzae, haemorrhoids, Hasner's fold, Hasner's valve, Hazardous Substances, hog flu, hyperkeratosis ♦ Immunity, Mucosal, Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis, Intraductal Papilloma ♦ Kingella ♦ lacrimal fold, leukoplakia, leukoplakia or leucoplakia ♦ Malacoplakia, Mechlorethamine, Mice, Inbred CFTR, Moraxella, Mouth Ulcer, mucosa graft ♦ Nasal Mucosa, Neoplasms, Connective Tissue, Nitrostat Sublingual ♦ oculomucocutaneous ♦ Paracoccidioidomycosis, Paranasal Sinuses, Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane, Pepsinogens, pig flu, pig influenza, plica lacrimalis, Podophyllotoxin, polyposis, Povidone-Iodine, precancerous polyps, progenitalis ♦ Respiratory Mucosa, Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial, Rhinitis, Atrophic ♦ Salicylanilides, sicca-syndrome, Sjoegren syndrome, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, sublingual administration, swine influenza ♦ telangiectasia, trifacial nerve ♦ ulcus ♦ vesicular stomatitis, Vespa crabro germana ♦ Ziram. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Mucous

Domain	Title
Books	Airway Secretion: Physiological Bases for the Control of Mucous Hypersecretion (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, Vol 72) (reference) Immunologic diseases of the mucous membranes : pathology, diagnosis, and treatment (reference) Irritation Testing of Skin and Mucous Membranes (reference) Malignant melanoma of the skin and mucous membrane (reference) Viral diseases of the skin, mucous membranes and genitals : clinical features, differential diagnosis and therapy, with basic principles of virology (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Mucous

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	Candida spp. are ubiquitous and colonize over 50% of healthy individuals. Up to 14% of patients with immunocompromising disease develop systemic candidiasis which predominantly infects mucous membranes. Credit: CDC.		M. leprae is the cause of leprosy, or Hansen's disease. A slow-multiplying bacterium, it mainly affects the skin, nerves, and mucous membranes. In 1999, the world incidence was estimated to be 640,000, and in 2000, 738,284 cases were identified. Credit: CDC.
	Mucous patches form during the breakdown of mucous membranes, seen here on the inferior surface of the tongue. During the secondary stage of syphilis, mucous patches can also develop inside the mouth, vulva, and vagina. Credit: CDC.		An infant demonstrating mucous patches and skin lesions resulting from congenital syphilis. In 1998, 81.3% of reported cases of CS occurred because the mother received no penicillin treatment or inadequate treatment before or during pregnancy. Credit: CDC.
	This patient with congenital syphilis has developed a perforation of hard palate due to gummatous destruction. These destructive tumors can also attack the skin, long bones, eyes, mucous membranes, throat, liver, or stomach lining. Credit: CDC.		Secondary Syphilis; Mucous Patches. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mucous

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The drug can also be rubbed onto mucous tissues. (references)
		Candida is normally found on skin or mucous membranes. (references)
		S. aureus commonly colonizes skin and mucous membranes in humans. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mucous

"Mucous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mucous" is used about 106 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	106	31,637

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

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Expressions: Mucous

Expressions using "mucous": mucous colic ♦ mucous colitis ♦ mucous gland ♦ mucous membrane ♦ mucous membranes ♦ mucous patches ♦ mucous secretion ♦ mucous tissue. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mucous

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
mucous plug	169	cause in mucous stool	7
in mucous stool	55	bloody mucous nose	6
cervical mucous	29	mucous picture plug	5
mucous plug pregnancy	27	discharge mucous vaginal	5
mucous stool	24	labor mucous plug	5
mucous	22	bowel movement mucous	5
mucous cyst	17	mucous ovulation	5
mucous membrane	16	bowels in mucous	4
mucous colitis	16	lining mucous restore	4
loss mucous plug	14	in mucous throat	4
cervical mucous ovulation	11	green mucous	4
cervical mucous pregnancy	10	food mucous producing	4
losing mucous plug	9	blood in mucous	4
cyst mucous retention	9	mucous yellow	4
membranes mucous	8	discharge mucous	4
bowel in movement mucous	8	eye mucous	4
in mucous plug pregnancy	8	dog in mucous stool	3
bloody mucous	8	mucous production	3
mucous vaginal	7	cervical during mucous pregnancy	3
mucous blood in stool	7	diarrhea mucous	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mucous

Language		Translations for "mucous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏المخاط, ‏شبيه بالمخاط. (various references)

Bulgarian		слизест (pituitary, slimy). (various references)

Chinese		黏液. (various references)

Czech		sliznatý (slimy), hlenitý. (various references)

Danish		mukoes (mucilaginous), slimet (mucilaginous). (various references)

Dutch		snotterig, slijmerig (mucilaginous). (various references)

Esperanto		muka. (various references)

Farsi		مخاطی (Pituitary). (various references)

Finnish		limainen (slimy). (various references)

French		muqueux (mucilaginous). (various references)

German		schleimig (mucilaginous, oily, slimily, slimy). (various references)

Greek		γλοιώδησ (clammy, mucilaginous, oozy, slimy, sticky, unctuous, viscid), βλεννώδησ. (various references)

Hebrew		רירי (mixoid, slimy). (various references)

Hungarian		nyálkás (glutinous, greasy, mucilaginous, mucoid, rheumy, ropy, slimy), nyálka-. (various references)

Italian		mucoso (mucilaginous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		粘膜 (mucous membrane). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ね�"まく (mucous membrane), びら�" (erosion of skin or mucous membranes, inflammation), �"しけ (mucous discharge from female genitals). (various references)

Manx		smuggagh (catarrhal, snivelling, snotty, snuffling), slummagh (jelly-like, slummy), shelloil, carbeigagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ucousmay

Portuguese		mucoso (pituitary). (various references)

Romanian		mucos (greenhorn, in short pants, snotty, stripling, unfledged), lipicios (adhesive, agglutinative, gluey, glutinous, gummy, limy, slimy, sticky, tacky, unctuous, viscous). (various references)

Russian		слизистый (pituitary, slimy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mukusni, sluzav (slimy). (various references)

Spanish		mucoso (slimily, slimy). (various references)

Swedish		slemmig (phlegmy, slimy). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งเป็นเมือก (mucilaginous), ซึ่งผลิตน้ำเมือก. (various references)

Turkish		sümüklü (runnynose, slimy, snotty), balgamlı, balgam gibi. (various references)

Ukrainian		слизовий. (various references)

Vietnamese		nhầy. (various references)

Yucatec		hoholki, hahalki. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mucous

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pituitarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Mucous

Misspellings
	"Mucous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mccosh, Micou, mjcosa, muccus, mucis, mucisa, Muco, mucopus, mucose, mucousy, mucpus, mucusal, mucuse, mucuss, mudos, mukis, muscous, mushoosh, Musurus, rucous, ucous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mucous"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mucous" (pronounced myuw"kus)
6	m y uw" k u s	mucus.
3	-k u s	abacus, amicus, carcass, caucus, circus, coccus, crocus, discus, focus, fracas, hocus, locus, markkas, Orcas, raucous, refocus, ruckus, streptococcus, viscous, yarmulkes.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mucous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-m-o-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: mucus.
	-2 letters: mocs, scum, sumo.
	-3 letters: cos, cum, moc, mos, mus, oms, som, sou, sum.
	-4 letters: mo, mu, om, os, so, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-m-o-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: osculum.
	+2 letters: cumbrous, cumulous, mucinous, muticous.
	+3 letters: coagulums, corundums, coumarous, guaiocums, inoculums, mercurous, opusculum, outmuscle, pumiceous, submucosa.
	+4 letters: calumnious, ceruminous, colluviums, columbiums, continuums, conundrums, cumbrously, homunculus, meticulous, miraculous, operculums, outmuscled, outmuscles, submucosae, submucosal, submucosas, unconsumed.
	+5 letters: altocumulus, colloquiums, communiques, cumulations, curmudgeons, customhouse, embouchures, impecunious, microfungus, multicourse, multisource, musclebound, outmuscling, promiscuous, scrumptious, uncustomary, unmalicious.
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