mucin
noun
any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
mucinous
-
a word derived from
mucin.
Example Sentences
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The degeneration is not a mucinous infiltration of the skin and the internal organs which occurs with thyroid deprivation, but a fatty degeneration, with a tendency to inversion of sex.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
