/mjuːˈkəʊziː/, U.S. /mjuˈkoʊzi/, mucosas.mucosan.
/mjuːˈkəʊzə/, U.S. /mjuˈkoʊzə//mjuːˈkəʊziː/, U.S. /mjuˈkoʊzi/, mucosas. Anatomy.
= mucous membrane n.See also muscularis mucosae n.
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1867 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Apr. 381/2 Lastly, by too extensive a conjunctival flap, the slanting wound channel between the aperture of the mucosa and the sclero-corneal border is unnecessarily lengthened.
1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 40 The whole of the skin and visible mucosa were of a dark blue color.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxvii. 748 The mucosa itself, except at the site of the ulcer, where it is destroyed, is comparatively healthy.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xviii. 274 The mucosa of the intestine secretes an intestinal juice containing enzymes.
1997 N.Y. Mag. 1 Sept. 21/2 If there was any doubt that cocaine was weighing heavily on the collective mucosae of Manhattan's chattering class, it would have been quickly dispelled.
2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) i. 15 As early as the 1830s it had been known to doctors that the mucosa around the vaginal opening changed colour after conception.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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