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mucoid

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mucoid \Mu"coid\, a. [Mucus + -oid.]
   Resembling mucus. --Dunglison.

   {Mucoid degeneration}, a form of degeneration in which the
      tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance
      resembling mucus. --Quain.

muckrake \muck"rake`\, in the above sense, and the noun
muckraker \muck"rak`er\, to designate one so engaged, were
   speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original
   allusion was to a character in Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's
   Progress'' so intent on raking up muck that he could not see
   a celestial crown held above him. Mucoid \Mu"coid\, n. [Mucin
   + -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.)
   One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on
   decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form
   of proteid matter.

Source : WordNet®

mucoid
     n : any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin

mucoid
     adj : relating to or resembling mucus; "a mucoid substance" [syn:
           {mucoidal}]
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