A tumor of stellate or polyhedral cells in a matrix of mucin.
From these and other tests used the conclusion was reached that these membranes were composed essentially of mucin.
The nest-substance, as he unhesitatingly states, is composed of mucin, or of a body closely related to it.
This skeleton was composed of hard cartilage, and arose in white fibrous tissue containing gelatin rather than mucin.
This fibrillation of mucus is regarded as the result of a coagulation of its mucin, previously held in solution by an alkali.
In mucous tissue, however, there is present mucin, wholly independent of any epithelial degeneration.
At the outset, however, the mucin escapes from the cells, the latter remaining relatively intact.
mucin mu·cin (myōō'sĭn)
n.
Any of a group of glycoproteins found especially in the secretions of mucous membranes.
