Definitions for mucuses

mucuses mu·cus

Spelling: [myoo-kuh s]
IPA: /ˈmyu kəs/

Mucuses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in mucuses (cemssuu).

Definitions for mucuses

noun

  1. a viscous, slimy mixture of mucins, water, electrolytes, epithelial cells, and leukocytes that is secreted by glands lining the nasal, esophageal, and other body cavities and serves primarily to protect and lubricate surfaces.

Origin of mucuses

1655-65; Latin mūcus snot; akin to Greek myktḗr nose, mýxa slime

Examples for mucuses

It would be similar to smoking, only less…and you might get a chronic cough, or raise a little [mucus].

The announcer said brightly, “She is completely effaced right now, and she just lost her mucus plug.”

Water precipitates pus from such a solution, but does not mucus.

School children can be taught to avoid handkerchiefs on which mucus has dried.

This will wash away any mucus or fecal matter that may have collected.

Plummer found the film so saccharine that he even developed a nickname for it: “The Sound of mucus.”

The mucus of the bladder is increased by cantharides, and perhaps by oil of turpentine.

It is the office of this fluid to moisten and thin the mucus of the nose.

mucus and pus (matter such as comes from an abscess) may also be discharged.

The mucus of the cellular membrane is increased by blisters and sinapisms.

Word Value for mucuses
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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