mucigenn.
/ˈmjuːsᵻdʒ(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈmjusədʒ(ə)n/, /ˈmjusəˌdʒɛn/ Physiology.
A substance that is an intracellular precursor or storage form of mucin. Frequently attributive. Also called mucinogen.
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raphide1831
body1839
raphid1863
mucigen1874
cell sap1875
globoid1875
raphis1879
pyrenoid1883
mucinogen1884
plastid1885
molluscum corpuscle1886
hyalosome1889
molluscum body1892
statolith1892
dictyosome1893
centrosome1895
Nissl body1898
Nissl granule1898
Nissl substance1899
archespore1901
blepharoplast1907
liposome1910
statocone1910
kinetosome1912
Golgi body1916
kinetoplast1925
lipochondrion1936
microsome1943
kappa1945
Pappenheimer body1947
microbody1954
lysosome1955
siderosome1957
ribosome1958
melanosome1961
cisterna1962
microtubule1962
plasmalemmasome1962
phagolysosome1963
informosome1964
monosome1964
mucocyst1965
peroxisome1965
rhoptry1967
spectrin1968
virosome1970
1874 Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Mucigen, mucous-forming substance.
1882 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 9) II. 225 The clear substance which accumulates within the cells is not mucin, but a precursor of mucin, which is termed ‘mucigen’.
1935 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 225 160 The alveolar cytoplasm, containing mucigen granules, sheds its apical cell membrane and the nucleus finally shrinks..as the secretion [of mucin] commences.
1970 Jrnl. Electron Microsc. 19 112/1 The membranes of mucigen granules derive directly from the membranes of Golgi complexes.
1998 Ann. Otol., Rhinol. & Laryngol. 107 525 Discharge of secretory granules and mucigen droplets had decreased.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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