different between mucosa vs mucus

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??s?

Noun

mucosa (usually uncountable, plural mucosae or mucosas)

1. (anatomy) mucous membrane

   Synonym: mucous membrane

Derived terms

• submucosa

Translations

Anagrams

• camous

Italian

Adjective

mucosa

1. feminine singular of mucoso

Noun

mucosa f (plural mucose)

1. (anatomy) mucosa, mucous membrane

   Synonyms: membrana mucosa, tonaca mucosa

Related terms

Anagrams

• camuso

Latin

Adjective

m?c?sa

1. nominative feminine singular of m?c?sus
2. nominative neuter plural of m?c?sus
3. accusative neuter plural of m?c?sus
4. vocative feminine singular of m?c?sus
5. nominative neuter plural of m?c?sus

Adjective

m?c?s?

1. ablative feminine singular of m?c?sus

Portuguese

Noun

mucosa f (plural mucosas)

1. (anatomy) mucous membrane (any membrane which secretes mucus)

Adjective

mucosa

1. feminine singular of mucoso

Spanish

Adjective

mucosa

1. feminine singular of mucoso

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?cus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mju?k?s/
• Rhymes: -u?k?s
• Hyphenation: mu?cus
• Homophone: mucous

Noun

mucus (usually uncountable, plural mucuses or muci)

1. (physiology) A slippery secretion from the lining of the mucous membranes.

Usage notes

Do not confuse mucous (adjective) with mucus (noun).

Hyponyms

• phlegm
• rheum

Derived terms

Related terms

• mucosa
• mucositis

Translations

See also

• snot

Anagrams

• CUSUM

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin m?cus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.kys/

Noun

mucus m (uncountable)

1. (physiology) mucus

Further reading

• “mucus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Alternative forms

• muccus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *moukos, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (múk?s, “mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mu?.kus/, [?mu?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mu.kus/, [?mu?kus]

Noun

m?cus m (genitive m?c?); second declension

1. mucus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• m?c?d?
• muce?
• m?cidus
• m?c?sus
• m?culentus

Related terms

• m?c?

Descendants

References

• mucus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mucus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mucus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mucus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin mucus. Doublet of muc.

Noun

mucus n (uncountable)

1. mucus

Declension