Mucus

Definition: Mucus

Mucus

Noun

1. Protective secretion of the mucous membranes.

Date "mucus" was first used: 1661. (references)

Specialty Definition: Mucus

Domain	Definition
Medicine	The viscous secretion of mucous membrane upon which it has a protective action. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Mucus

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

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Synonyms within Context: Mucus

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Semiliquidity	Jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity); wax, beeswax.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mucus

English words defined with "mucus": amyxia, Apophlegmatic ♦ Bartholin's gland, Blennogenous, Blennorrhea, booger ♦ catarrh, clear the throat, cystic fibrosis ♦ endotracheal tube, Erthine ♦ fibrocystic disease of the pancreas ♦ hawk, Hemorrhoids ♦ Leucorrhoea, lochia, loose ♦ muciferous, Mucific, Muciform, Muciparous, Mucivore, mucoid, Mucoid degeneration, mucoidal, mucopurulent, mucose, mucous, Mucous membranes, mucoviscidosis ♦ nabothian gland ♦ ovulation method, ovulation method of family planning ♦ pancreatic fibrosis, Pituite, Pituitous, postnasal drip ♦ rhinorrhea ♦ Snet, snivel, snot, snuffle, snuffler ♦ tapotement. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mucus": blennorrhoea ♦ Caco-2 Cells, Carcinoma, Signet Ring Cell, chronic obstructive bronchitis ♦ Drainage, Postural ♦ Gastritis, Hypertrophic ♦ Medical Waste, Medical Waste Disposal, mucinous carcinoma, Mucins, mucociliary, Mucociliary Clearance, Mucosal Lining, MUSICAL-STRING MAKER ♦ Ninhydrin ♦ pseudomyxoma peritonei, Pus, pharyngeal mucous membrane ♦ sympto-thermal method ♦ vault cap. (references)

Etymologies containing "mucus": Blennogenous, Blennorrhea, Blenny ♦ Mucedin, Mucic, Mucid, Mucilage, Mucous, Muculent, Mycothrix, Myxocystodea, Myxoedema, Myxoma, Myxomycetes, Myxophyta, Myxopod. (references)

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

Danish (mucus), Dutch (mucus), French (mucus), German (mucus), Latin (mold, mucus, phlegm, slime, snot), Romanian (mucus).

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Modern Usage: Mucus

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

You two-toned, zebra headed, slime coated,pimple farming, parimicium brain, munching on your own mucus suffering from Peter Pan envy. (Hook; writing credit: James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. Based on the play 'Peter Pan' by J.M. Barrie.)

Uh, Sphincter Mucus Layer Ringworm, roger! (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

It is the mucus that binds us. (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk)

Egon!, your mucus. (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

Zhaan, let me explain to you what's going on inside my nose right now. There's large pieces of green mucus gunk-- (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mucus

Domain	Title
Books	Cervical mucus in human reproduction; based on a colloquium held in Geneva on 18-20 September 1972, within the WHO Expanded Programme of Research, Development, and Research Training in Human Reproduction (reference) Mucus & Related Topics (reference) Mucus in Health and Disease, II (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 144) (reference) WHO Laboratory Manual for the Examination of Human Semen and Sperm-Cervical Mucus Interaction (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Mucus

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	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.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Mucus".

Play	Caption
	Phlegm; mucus; phlegmy; snot; snotty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mucus

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Draining mucus may also cause itching. (references)
		There are also chemical changes in the mucus proteins. (references)
		Several factors may contribute to this mucus abnormality. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mucus

"Mucus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mucus" is used about 227 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%	227	19,961

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

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Expressions: Mucus

Expressions using "mucus": Cervix Mucus ♦ nasal mucus. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "mucus": mucus-coated, mucus-covered, mucus-filled, mucus-like, mucus-mopping, mucus-secreting, mucus-shedding.
	Ending with "mucus": birth-mucus, eye-mucus.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mucus

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
mucus plug	321	bowel movement mucus	11
cervical mucus	192	bowel in movement mucus	10
mucus	123	throat mucus	9
mucus in the stool	112	cervical early mucus pregnancy	9
mucus plug pregnancy	49	in mucus throat	8
mucus stool	36	in mucus plug pregnancy	8
cervical mucus pregnancy	35	bowel mucus	7
ovulation cervical mucus	31	mucus cyst	7
labor mucus plug	19	cyst mucus retention	7
loss mucus plug	18	lung mucus	7
mucus picture plug	18	bloody mucus	7
cervical during mucus pregnancy	16	eye mucus	6
vaginal mucus	15	cervical mucus no	6
losing mucus plug	15	blood in mucus	6
blood and mucus in stool	14	does like look mucus plug	6
green mucus	14	in mucus stool white	6
mucus pregnancy	12	in mucus urine	6
ovulation mucus	11	cervical change mucus	6
mucus yellow	11	bowels in mucus	6
after cervical mucus ovulation	11	bloody mucus stool	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mucus

Language		Translations for "mucus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mukozë. (various references)

Arabic		‏مخاط, ‏رغام مخاط. (various references)

Bulgarian		слуз (phlegm, slime). (various references)

Chinese		粘液 (Mucilage), 漦 (go with current, spittle). (various references)

Czech		sliz (ooze, slime). (various references)

Danish		mucus. (various references)

Dutch		slijm (slime), mucus. (various references)

Esperanto		muko (phlegm). (various references)

Faeroese		slím (phlegm). (various references)

Farsi		ماده مخطی , ماده لزج (Jelly), خلط (Phlegm), بلغم (Phlegm). (various references)

Finnish		lima (dirt, mud, phlegm, slime). (various references)

French		mucus. (various references)

German		Schleim (gruel, mucilage, phlegm, rheum, slime), Mucus. (various references)

Greek		μύξα (mucilage, rheum, slime, snivel, snot), φλέγμα (phlegm). (various references)

Hebrew		כיח (hawk, phlegm, spittle). (various references)

Hungarian		nyálka (mucilage, phlegm, rheum, slaver, slime). (various references)

Indonesian		selesma (cold), lendir (mucilage, plegm), ingus (snot), gelama (phlegm), geladir (phlegm, slime), balgam. (various references)

Italian		muco (mucilage, phlegm, rheum, slime). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		粘液 (mucilage, phlegm, viscous liquid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ね�"えき (annual profit, mucilage, phlegm, viscous liquid), ぬめり (slime, viscous liquid). (various references)

Korean		� �액 (Mucilage, slime). (various references)

Manx		smug (blubber of jellyfish, catarrh, snot, spit, spittle), slumm (coagulum, jelly, jellyfish), carbeig (rheum). (various references)

Pig Latin		ucusmay

Portuguese		muco (gob, phlegm, snot). (various references)

Romanian		mucus. (various references)

Russian		слизь (mucilage, slime). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mukus, sluz (phlegm, rheum). (various references)

Spanish		flema (imperturbability, phlegm, sluggishness), esputo (phlegm, spit, sputum). (various references)

Swedish		slem (expectoration, phlegm, slime). (various references)

Thai		น้ำมูก (rheum). (various references)

Turkish		sümük (slime, snivel, snot), balgam (expectoration, indifference, phlegm, pituitary, sputum). (various references)

Turkmen		nem (moisture). (various references)

Ukrainian		слиз (mucilage, phlegm, slime). (various references)

Vietnamese		nước nhầy. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mucus

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mucus, virus. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	pippe. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mucus

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mucus": mucuses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mucus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: macos, macu, Mccosh, mcu, Mcui, mcus, Mescus, mjcosa, mobus, Moccas, mocus, mokus, mpcu, mucas, muccus, mucels, Muci, mucis, mucisa, Muco, mucose, mucpus, mucusal, mucuse, mucuss, mukis, mulus, Muluzi, mumus, muscu, muscus, muu, muus, muuu, nucus, rucus, ulcus, Umca. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mucus"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mucus" (pronounced myuw"kus)
6	m y uw" k u s	mucous.
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: Mucus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-m-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: scum.
	-2 letters: cum, mus, sum.
	-3 letters: mu, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-m-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: mucous, scutum.
	+2 letters: cumulus, cundums, cuprums, curiums, muclucs, mucuses, osculum, succumb, vacuums.
	+3 letters: baculums, crumbums, cumbrous, cumquats, cumulous, curcumas, custumal, fulcrums, jumbucks, mucinous, muscular, muticous, secundum, speculum, spiculum, succumbs, vasculum.
	+4 letters: aciculums, claustrum, coagulums, corundums, coumarous, cucumbers, cumulates, custumals, eunuchism, glucinums, guaiacums, guaiocums, inoculums, luteciums, majuscule, mercurous, minuscule, mucklucks, opusculum, outmuscle, pumiceous, scutellum, speculums, submucosa, succumbed, umbilicus, unmusical, vasculums, vinculums.
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