mucousadj.

Brit.

/ˈmjuːkəs/, U.S.

/ˈmjukəs/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mūcōsus.

Etymology: < classical Latin mūcōsus mucous, slimy < mūcus mucus n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French muqueux (1560 in Middle French; 1520 as muscose), Italian mucoso (a1698), Portuguese mucoso (c1813), Spanish mucoso (1832; 1495 as mocoso).

1. Medicine and Biology. Of the nature of, resembling, or consisting of mucus; covered with or producing mucus; resulting from the presence of mucus. Formerly also: gen. †slimy (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective] > slimy

slimy1398

limousc1420

engleimous?c1475

gleety1483

slimely1528

mucous1578

slimish1648

vasy1742

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective]

rheumatica1398

phlegmy?c1425

phlegmaticc1503

mucous1578

pituitous1578

rheumy1583

phlegmatical1586

pituous1617

pituitose1710

mucoid1849

mucoidal1849

myxoid1890

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man f. 53^v A certaine mucous, or slimie substance.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 158 It hath in the tongue a spongy and mucous extremity, whereby..it inviscates..insects.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Aspera The Wind-pipe..being besmear'd with a fattish and mucous Humour..to make the Voice smoother.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 194 We shall perceive its whole surface..covered with a mucous fluid.

1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 344 Expectorated matter belongs to the class of coagulable fluids, and not of gelatinizable, or, as commonly asserted, mucous fluids.

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 50 The eggs..of the fresh-water species are soft, mucous, and transparent.

1878 C. M. Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. 485 The Mucous or Viscous Fermentation, i.e. a fermentation characterized by the formation of gummy matters.

1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. vii. 212 The gullet..has an outer muscular coat, and an inner mucous coat.

1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) v. 51 A sinus is a blind track opening on to the skin or a mucous surface.

1979 G. Bourne Pregnancy (rev. ed.) xi. 173 The pink, mucous stain which occurs at the onset of labour.

1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 250 The planarians..anchor themselves by their posterior end (presumably by mucous adhesion).

2. Medicine. Characterized by excessive mucus production. Also (of a sound heard in auscultation): indicating (or believed to indicate) the presence of excessive mucus in the bronchi (see also mucous râle n. at Compounds).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge

rheumatic?c1425

mucous1754

blennorrhagic1879

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2148/2 Mucous fever, a term used by medical writers, to express those fevers, in which nature is endeavouring to rid herself of an abundance of pituitous, mucous, and serous matter.

1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Diarrhœa Diarrhœa mucosa, the mucous diarrhœa, from a quantity of slime being voided.

1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest i. i. v. 72 The humid species may be..divided into two varieties, viz: mucous catarrh..and pituitous catarrh.

1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 227 The mucous, the sonorous, and the sibilant ronchus.

1859 Lancet 17 Dec. 614/1 Clinical illustrations of mucous disease of the colon.

1943 W. C. Alvarez Nervousness, Indigestion, & Pain xx. 319 (heading) The irritable bowel syndrome commonly called mucous or spastic colitis.

1951 H. Giles Harbin's Ridge 7 She knew that goose grease was good to cut the mucous croup.

1977 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. 38 529 There was mucous bronchitis characterized by..exudation of mucus and eosinophils into bronchioles.

1992 Jrnl. Egyptian Soc. Parasitol. 22 381 Intestinal pain and mucous diarrhea.

3. Botany. Covered with or consisting of mucilage. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > containing, producing, or covered with resin or gum

resinous1597

resinifluous1657

rosinaceous1675

gummous1693

gummy1776

mucilaginous1796

resin1834

mucous1839

succiniferous1896

vernicose-

1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) iii. 471 Mucous, or slimy (mucosus); covered with a slimy secretion.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 350 Stratiotes aloides... Seeds with a mucous coat.

1882–4 M. C. Cooke Brit. Fresh-water Algæ I. 179 Hormiscia zonata... More or less bright green, mucous.

1990 Marine Ecol. Progress Ser. 59 285 Bio-accumulation of manganese in the mucous colonies [of Phaeocystis] appeared to be an indirect process.

Compounds

mucous colitis n. Medicine (now historical) irritable bowel syndrome.

ΚΠ

1868 Lancet 4 Jan. 7/1 One of these ailments is..designated chronic muco-colitis, or catarrh of the colon.]

1897 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 145/2 The attacks of mucous colitis are usually brought on by some nervous strain.

1909 Practitioner July 15 They may be sleepless; they frequently suffer from the malady known as mucous colitis.

1948 M. Sahyun Proteins & Amino Acids in Nutrition x. 336 Clinical hypersensitivity is manifested by infantile eczema, angioneurotic edema, mucous colitis, and bronchial asthma.

1990 Times 8 Mar. 18/5 The Edwardians knew the irritable bowel syndrome as spastic colitis, and by the interwar years it had become known as mucous colitis.

† mucous corpuscle n. Physiology Obsolete a leucocyte present in mucus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > minute piece of > type of

mucus corpuscle1846

mucous corpuscle1855

plasmoblast1897

plasmocyte1897

1855 J. W. Griffith & A. Henfrey Micrographic Dict. (1856) 476/1 Mucous corpuscles, see Mouth.

1863 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 153 556 I have described the phenomenon as it may be seen in the mucous corpuscles and young epithelial cells of the nasal and bronchial mucous membranes.

1899 Proc. Royal Soc. 54 345 This fluid is opalescent, somewhat viscid, and on microscopic examination shows amorphous matter with mucous corpuscles.

† mucous exudation n. Medicine Obsolete a mucous or mucopurulent exudate.

ΚΠ

1833 W. Beaumont Exper. & Observ. Gastric Juice 107 The mucous exudation is more slowly restored.

1858 Proc. Royal Soc. 9 139 The mucous membrane of the [ear]drum is..unparalleled not only for tenuity, but compactness and high vascularity, though it is barely possible to verify the presence of mucous exudation upon it.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 257 Mucous exudation is sometimes not to be distinguished from normal mucus.

1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 84 188 The fourth stomach contains hæmorrhages and sub-mucous exudations.]

mucous gland n. Anatomy and Zoology (originally) a bulbourethral (Cowper's) gland; (later) any gland that secretes mucus.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun]

miliary gland1691

mucilaginous gland1691

mucous gland1699

acinus1702

crypta1726

glandule1751

crypt1804

globate gland1813

ganglion1819

submaxillary1824

lacrimal1829

germ gland1840

sweat-gland1845

ductless glands1849

lymph node1892

metasternal1965

1699 W. Cowper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 368 The two Glands above described, which from the Liquor they separate may be call'd Glandulæ Mucosæ... The upper part of this Muscle..passes immediately over the Mucous Glands.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2148/1 Mucous glands, in anatomy, three glands, which empty themselves into the urethra; so called by their first discoverer, Mr. Cowper, from the tenacity of the liquor which they separate.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. xxviii. 253 (heading) The mucous glands of the lip.

1929 H. L. Alexander Bronchial Asthma ii. 29 Bronchospasm..stimulates the mucous gland.

1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xi. 329 In amphibians, mucous glands are usually to be found on the tongue.

mucous ligament n. Anatomy (now rare) the infrapatellar fold of synovial membrane in the knee joint.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] > of leg

hough-sinewc1000

hoxc1440

hamstring1565

Achilles tendon1703

fundiform ligament1889

Y ligament1890

mucous ligament1892

tendo calcaneus1900

Achilles1983

1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mucous Mucous ligament of knee.

mucous râle n. [after French râle muqueux (R. Laennec Auscultation Médiate (1819) II. 3)] Medicine a bubbling sound heard in auscultation, believed to indicate the presence of excessive mucus in the bronchi; cf. sense 2.

ΚΠ

1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 122 No distinctive line can be drawn between crepitating, sub-crepitating, and mucous râles.

1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 170 Large number of coarse mucous râles made the first probable.

1997 Acta Anaesthiologica Scand. 41 670 The mucous rales also decreased.

Derivatives

† mucousness n. Obsolete rare the state or quality of being mucous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [noun] > quality of being

pituosity1617

mucousness1683

mucosity1684

muculency1721

mucoidy1973

1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 267 Mr. Mariotte..denyes the retina's consisting of fibres, affirming it to have nothing but a mucousness with some veins and arteries.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mucousness, snottiness.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Mucousness,..slime; viscosity.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mucous
释义	mucousadj. Brit. /ˈmjuːkəs/, U.S. /ˈmjukəs/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mūcōsus. Etymology: < classical Latin mūcōsus mucous, slimy < mūcus mucus n. + -ōsus -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French muqueux (1560 in Middle French; 1520 as muscose), Italian mucoso (a1698), Portuguese mucoso (c1813), Spanish mucoso (1832; 1495 as mocoso). 1. Medicine and Biology. Of the nature of, resembling, or consisting of mucus; covered with or producing mucus; resulting from the presence of mucus. Formerly also: gen. †slimy (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective] > slimy slimy1398 limousc1420 engleimous?c1475 gleety1483 slimely1528 mucous1578 slimish1648 vasy1742 the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective] rheumatica1398 phlegmy?c1425 phlegmaticc1503 mucous1578 pituitous1578 rheumy1583 phlegmatical1586 pituous1617 pituitose1710 mucoid1849 mucoidal1849 myxoid1890 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man f. 53^v A certaine mucous, or slimie substance. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxi. 158 It hath in the tongue a spongy and mucous extremity, whereby..it inviscates..insects. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Aspera The Wind-pipe..being besmear'd with a fattish and mucous Humour..to make the Voice smoother. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 194 We shall perceive its whole surface..covered with a mucous fluid. 1809 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 99 344 Expectorated matter belongs to the class of coagulable fluids, and not of gelatinizable, or, as commonly asserted, mucous fluids. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 50 The eggs..of the fresh-water species are soft, mucous, and transparent. 1878 C. M. Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. 485 The Mucous or Viscous Fermentation, i.e. a fermentation characterized by the formation of gummy matters. 1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. vii. 212 The gullet..has an outer muscular coat, and an inner mucous coat. 1949 H. Bailey Demonstr. Physical Signs Clin. Surg. (ed. 11) v. 51 A sinus is a blind track opening on to the skin or a mucous surface. 1979 G. Bourne Pregnancy (rev. ed.) xi. 173 The pink, mucous stain which occurs at the onset of labour. 1990 Jrnl. Zool. 220 250 The planarians..anchor themselves by their posterior end (presumably by mucous adhesion). 2. Medicine. Characterized by excessive mucus production. Also (of a sound heard in auscultation): indicating (or believed to indicate) the presence of excessive mucus in the bronchi (see also mucous râle n. at Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge rheumatic?c1425 mucous1754 blennorrhagic1879 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2148/2 Mucous fever, a term used by medical writers, to express those fevers, in which nature is endeavouring to rid herself of an abundance of pituitous, mucous, and serous matter. 1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Diarrhœa Diarrhœa mucosa, the mucous diarrhœa, from a quantity of slime being voided. 1821 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest i. i. v. 72 The humid species may be..divided into two varieties, viz: mucous catarrh..and pituitous catarrh. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xx. 227 The mucous, the sonorous, and the sibilant ronchus. 1859 Lancet 17 Dec. 614/1 Clinical illustrations of mucous disease of the colon. 1943 W. C. Alvarez Nervousness, Indigestion, & Pain xx. 319 (heading) The irritable bowel syndrome commonly called mucous or spastic colitis. 1951 H. Giles Harbin's Ridge 7 She knew that goose grease was good to cut the mucous croup. 1977 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. 38 529 There was mucous bronchitis characterized by..exudation of mucus and eosinophils into bronchioles. 1992 Jrnl. Egyptian Soc. Parasitol. 22 381 Intestinal pain and mucous diarrhea. 3. Botany. Covered with or consisting of mucilage. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > containing, producing, or covered with resin or gum resinous1597 resinifluous1657 rosinaceous1675 gummous1693 gummy1776 mucilaginous1796 resin1834 mucous1839 succiniferous1896 vernicose- 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) iii. 471 Mucous, or slimy (mucosus); covered with a slimy secretion. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 350 Stratiotes aloides... Seeds with a mucous coat. 1882–4 M. C. Cooke Brit. Fresh-water Algæ I. 179 Hormiscia zonata... More or less bright green, mucous. 1990 Marine Ecol. Progress Ser. 59 285 Bio-accumulation of manganese in the mucous colonies [of Phaeocystis] appeared to be an indirect process. Compounds mucous colitis n. Medicine (now historical) irritable bowel syndrome. ΚΠ 1868 Lancet 4 Jan. 7/1 One of these ailments is..designated chronic muco-colitis, or catarrh of the colon.] 1897 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 30 Jan. 145/2 The attacks of mucous colitis are usually brought on by some nervous strain. 1909 Practitioner July 15 They may be sleepless; they frequently suffer from the malady known as mucous colitis. 1948 M. Sahyun Proteins & Amino Acids in Nutrition x. 336 Clinical hypersensitivity is manifested by infantile eczema, angioneurotic edema, mucous colitis, and bronchial asthma. 1990 Times 8 Mar. 18/5 The Edwardians knew the irritable bowel syndrome as spastic colitis, and by the interwar years it had become known as mucous colitis. † mucous corpuscle n. Physiology Obsolete a leucocyte present in mucus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > minute piece of > type of mucus corpuscle1846 mucous corpuscle1855 plasmoblast1897 plasmocyte1897 1855 J. W. Griffith & A. Henfrey Micrographic Dict. (1856) 476/1 Mucous corpuscles, see Mouth. 1863 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 153 556 I have described the phenomenon as it may be seen in the mucous corpuscles and young epithelial cells of the nasal and bronchial mucous membranes. 1899 Proc. Royal Soc. 54 345 This fluid is opalescent, somewhat viscid, and on microscopic examination shows amorphous matter with mucous corpuscles. † mucous exudation n. Medicine Obsolete a mucous or mucopurulent exudate. ΚΠ 1833 W. Beaumont Exper. & Observ. Gastric Juice 107 The mucous exudation is more slowly restored. 1858 Proc. Royal Soc. 9 139 The mucous membrane of the [ear]drum is..unparalleled not only for tenuity, but compactness and high vascularity, though it is barely possible to verify the presence of mucous exudation upon it. 1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 257 Mucous exudation is sometimes not to be distinguished from normal mucus. 1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 84 188 The fourth stomach contains hæmorrhages and sub-mucous exudations.] mucous gland n. Anatomy and Zoology (originally) a bulbourethral (Cowper's) gland; (later) any gland that secretes mucus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun] miliary gland1691 mucilaginous gland1691 mucous gland1699 acinus1702 crypta1726 glandule1751 crypt1804 globate gland1813 ganglion1819 submaxillary1824 lacrimal1829 germ gland1840 sweat-gland1845 ductless glands1849 lymph node1892 metasternal1965 1699 W. Cowper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 368 The two Glands above described, which from the Liquor they separate may be call'd Glandulæ Mucosæ... The upper part of this Muscle..passes immediately over the Mucous Glands. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2148/1 Mucous glands, in anatomy, three glands, which empty themselves into the urethra; so called by their first discoverer, Mr. Cowper, from the tenacity of the liquor which they separate. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. xxviii. 253 (heading) The mucous glands of the lip. 1929 H. L. Alexander Bronchial Asthma ii. 29 Bronchospasm..stimulates the mucous gland. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xi. 329 In amphibians, mucous glands are usually to be found on the tongue. mucous ligament n. Anatomy (now rare) the infrapatellar fold of synovial membrane in the knee joint. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] > of leg hough-sinewc1000 hoxc1440 hamstring1565 Achilles tendon1703 fundiform ligament1889 Y ligament1890 mucous ligament1892 tendo calcaneus1900 Achilles1983 1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Mucous Mucous ligament of knee. mucous râle n. [after French râle muqueux (R. Laennec Auscultation Médiate (1819) II. 3)] Medicine a bubbling sound heard in auscultation, believed to indicate the presence of excessive mucus in the bronchi; cf. sense 2. ΚΠ 1853 W. O. Markham tr. J. Skoda Treat. Auscultation 122 No distinctive line can be drawn between crepitating, sub-crepitating, and mucous râles. 1897 Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. 9 170 Large number of coarse mucous râles made the first probable. 1997 Acta Anaesthiologica Scand. 41 670 The mucous rales also decreased. Derivatives † mucousness n. Obsolete rare the state or quality of being mucous. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [noun] > quality of being pituosity1617 mucousness1683 mucosity1684 muculency1721 mucoidy1973 1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 267 Mr. Mariotte..denyes the retina's consisting of fibres, affirming it to have nothing but a mucousness with some veins and arteries. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Mucousness, snottiness. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Mucousness,..slime; viscosity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1578
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