Mucous is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 53 anagrams from letters in mucous (cmosuu).
1640-50; Latin mūcōsus slimy, mucous, equivalent to mūc(us) snot (see mucus) + -ōsus -ous
There it is soon enveloped by a mucous membrane, which grows around it and incloses it.
The mucous membrane, upon which this ramifies, is of considerable extent in man.
Wax is also used to paint over the mucous membrane, where shown or exposed.
There were no signs of chest trouble, but some mucous expectoration.
For this reason it may attack any part of the body where mucous membrane is.
Traveling through the bodily fluids of an infected person, Ebola enters through a mucous membrane or break in the skin.
We may act on either the skin or mucous membrane, or both at once.
Are the mucous membranes of the mouth, throat and larynx ever involved?
The glans is covered and the prepuce is lined by mucous membrane.
The skin is very pale, the mucous membranes are bluish white.