muco-comb. form

1961 Bacteriol. Rev. 25 235/1 The activity or function of the mucociliary system in the upper respiratory tract is important in response to the infection.

1963 Science 20 Dec. 1573/1 The disposal of foreign particles from the bronchopulmonary tree is most often attributed to the cleansing actions of the muco-ciliary stream..and alveolar phagocytes.

1977 Brit. Jrnl. Exper. Pathol. 58 9 The mucociliary escalator is a significant route of excretion of PbO from the respiratory tract.

1983 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 219 65 The algae were rapidly taken into the coelenteric cavity of the scyphistomae by muco-ciliary action.

1998 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 43 741 Particles are captured by direct interception with the ctenidial filament and then transported along the frontal surface of the filament by mucociliary processes.

1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 286 A peculiar sharp muco-crepitant râle.

1965 K. Tokuyasu & O. H. Scherbaum in Jrnl. Cell Biol. 27 67/1 The structures containing the amorphous material are variously referred to as protrichocysts.., mucoid trichocysts.., mucigenic bodies.., or secretory ampules... The latter four terms have apparently been used to describe similar or identical structures which we will refer to as ‘mucocysts’.

1988 Jrnl. Protozool. 35 46 It may be possible to purify a specific carbohydrate component of mucocysts which may be helpful in analyzing their function, biogenesis, and structural organization.

2000 Cell Biol. Internat. 23 719 Wild-type Tetrahymena thermophila strain B1868 VII and the mutant strains..MS-1, blocked in secretion of lysosomal enzymes, and SB281, defective in mucocyst maturation.

1945 F. W. Stewart et al. in Ann. Surg. 122 820 The term ‘muco-epidermoid’ salivary gland tumor, is one of our own choosing and..expresses two principal histologic features present in all of our cases.

1964 Cancer 17 1135/2 Those tumors [of the cervix] having mainly squamous-cell characteristics but containing scattered or clumped cells with intracytoplasmic mucin are labelled mucoepidermoid carcinoma.

1998 Amer. Surgeon 64 307 We believe that mucoepidermoid areas correspond to squamous and mucinous metaplasia of a preexisting papillary carcinoma.

1817 A. Marcet in Medico-chirurg. Trans. 2 346 Animal matter contained in this fluid consists almost entirely of a soluble uncoagulable substance, which may be called extractive or muco-extractive matter.

1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) II. 30 Dr. Bostock has..discovered..a distinct substance..which Dr. Marcet has called muco-extractive matter.

1827 Dublin Hosp. Rep. 4 46 These evacuations..consisted merely of two or three table spoon-fulls of mucogelatinous matter.

1946 Nature 26 Oct. 588/1 The organism was arranged in files within a filamentous muco-gelatinous sheath forming frondose colonies up to 10 cm. in length.

1993 Brit. Vet. Jrnl. 149 485 Mucoserous or mucogelatinous non-purulent discharges were present in the renal pelvis.

1948 B. J. Orban in Oral Surg., Oral Med. & Oral Pathol. 1 828 The pale pink gingiva is separated..from the red alveolar mucosa by a scalloped line, the mucogingival junction.

1962 G. C. Blake & J. R. Trott Periodontol. viii. 82 Pockets of 6mm in the incisor region are easily eliminated but pockets of the same depth in the molar region may extend below the muco-gingival line.

1978 Jrnl. Periodontol. 49 395 Both mucogingival surgery techniques successfully prevented the gingival blood circulation from showing ischemia.

2002 Jrnl. Clin. Periodontol. 29 177 The purpose of this study was to assess the response to mucogingival surgery in an otherwise periodontally healthy Hispanic population.

1870 H. Power tr. S. Stricker Man. Human & Compar. Histol. I. xvi. 497 Three anatomical different parts can be distinguished in it [sc. the mouth]; a cutaneous, a transitional and a muco-membranous portion [Ger. Schleimhautteil].

1947 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 56 721 Cutaneous or mucomembranous lesions are observed in many patients with this disease [sc. histoplasmosis].

1996 Jrnl. Pediatric Surg. 31 709 Total disconnection from the coccyx and mucomembranous covering distinguish this tumor from the more common sacrococcygeal teratoma.

1875 tr. K. Schroeder in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. X. 368 By a series of intermediate changes the mucine becomes gradually converted into the muco-peptone.

1859 R. H. Semple tr. P. Bretonneau in Mem. Diphtheria 68 The muco-puriform secretion, which was expelled from time to time through the opening of the wound.

1859 R. H. Semple tr. P. Bretonneau in Mem. Diphtheria 70 The cough..was attended with the expulsion of voluminous, yellowish-white, opaque, muco-puriform sputa.

1825 Lancet 29 Jan. 105/1 There is an expectoration of mucus or of muco-purulent fluid.

1900 J. O. Symes Bacteriol. Every-day Pract. 39 Now and then the gonococcal infection may run an extremely mild course, showing only a slight muco-purulent discharge.

1927 Amer. Mercury July 369/2 The spread of muco-purulent inflammation.

1998 Amer. Family Physician 58 1335 Symptoms such as mucopurulent rhinitis or cough, even when they persist for up to two weeks, do not necessarily indicate bacterial infection.

1848 W. H. Walshe in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 114/2 The presence of a bougie in the urethra for a very short time suffices to cause the production of muco-pus.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 162 Recovery may ensue after the patient has been spitting muco-pus for weeks.

1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xv. 154 Flakes of muco-pus and eventually of pus are seen in the fornices and often on the margins of the lids.

1997 Internat. Jrnl. STD & AIDS 8 636 Gonococcal and/or chlamydial cervical infection was associated with..the presence of endocervical mucopus.

1835 R. Willis in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 132/2 Mere water holding..a muco-saccharine matter.

1880 W. M. Baker in Kirkes' Hand-bk. Physiol. (ed. 10) ix. 278 In the mixed muco-salivary glands.

1993 Amer. Jrnl. Otolaryngol. 14 187 Upper respiratory tract inflammation was assessed by roentgenograms of the paranasal sinuses and mucosalivary function.

1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) III. 466 A muco-sanguineous..fluid.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xviii. 289 The passage of..muco-sanguineous stools.

1859 R. H. Semple tr. P. Bretonneau in Mem. Diphtheria 69 The canula, by penetrating more deeply, excited an irritative cough, which was accompanied by a muco-serous expectoration.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 351 The muco-serous (or albuminous) expectoration.

1976 Arch. Dermatol. 112 1235 The mucoserous glands of the labial mucosa are richly innervated.

2000 Jrnl. Biosci. 25 181 Histochemically, the fluid within the vomeronasal organ of all squamates is mucoserous, though it is uncertain whether mucous and serous constituents constitute separate components.

1955 Proc. Royal Soc. 1954–5 B. 143 152 Hardly any of this [radioactive sulphur] is incorporated in the mucin of the secretion, but by 6 h there seems to be some actually in the muco-substances.

1961 Amer. Jrnl. Clin. Pathol. 36 393/2 Sites containing PAS-reactive neutral mucosubstances develop affinity for the basic dye aldehyde fuchsin after oxidation by peracetic acid.

1981 Science 29 May 1039/3 A mucosubstance is secreted by the tip of the foot.

1984 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 71 1170/1 The regions of acid efflux adjacent to the tips of some roots was probably due to acid mucosubstances in the mucilage secreted by the root caps.

2001 Toxicol. Sci. 60 338 Endotoxin enhanced the ozone-induced increase in stored mucosubstances.

1983 S. Kitzinger Woman's Experience of Sex vii. 193 I am the type of person who likes to be in control of my body and know what it is doing all the time, and the muco-thermal method goes along with that.

1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) i. 60 Natural (mucothermal) methods. These make use of the physiological phenomena that the basal temperature of a woman rises after ovulation, and that the cervical mucus changes from being sticky and thick at the fertile mid-cycle to become thinner after ovulation.

1993 Adv. Contraception 9 269 In group B (muco-thermal method) there were 12 UIP [= unintended pregnancies] in 1352 cycles with a pregnancy rate of 10.6.

1979 J. Marshall Planning for Family: Atlas of Mucothermic Charts 12 By combining observation of mucus and records of temperature (hence the term ‘mucothermic’) the fertile and infertile phases of the menstrual cycle may be determined.

1945 S. Farber in Jrnl. Michigan State Med. Soc. 44 592/2 Until the etiological factors are defined and for the purposes of present convenience only a purely descriptive term suggested by the physical character of the material produced by the mucous glands in this disease may be employed—muco-viscidosis.

1973 L. C. Carey Pancreas ix. 181/2 In mucoviscidosis, steatorrhea is usually present.

1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 129/2 The findings were identical to those of classical meconium ileus associated with mucoviscidosis.