mucosal

American  

[myoo-kohs-uhl] / myuˈkoʊs əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to mucous membrane.

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Other Word Forms

• intrasubmucosal adjective
• subsubmucosal adjective
• transsubmucosal adjective

Example Sentences

When intestinal cells absorb cysteine from food, they convert it into CoA, a cofactor that moves into the mucosal lining of the intestine.

From Science Daily

“They irritate the stomach lining and encourage mucosal shedding, and to the untrained eye, it looks like a parasite.”

From Salon

The study found that the adjuvant encouraged a mucosal immune response, spurring the activation of immune cells in the respiratory tract critical for halting the bacteria's ability to colonize.

From Science Daily

Among other things, she has used mini-organs she developed to study how cells in the cervix degenerate and turn cancerous -- another region where different types of mucosal cells collide.

From Science Daily

But unlike blood, gut cells are “fragile, they don’t survive well in culture,” where scientists need to grow them and probe their function, says Saurabh Mehandru, a gastroenterologist and mucosal immunologist at Mount Sinai.

From Science Magazine