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muco-

  1. a combining form representing mucus or mucous in compound words:

    mucopurulent.



muco-

combining_form

  1. mucus or mucous

    mucin

    mucoprotein

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

A muco-purulent or purulent secretion can visually be pressed out from between the papillomatous elevations.

The muco-cartilage is coloured red, the branchial or soft cartilage blue, and the hard cartilage purple.

I have curtailed it in order not to interfere with the representation of the lower lip and tentacular muco-cartilages.

This muco-cartilaginous skeleton is the key to the whole position, and requires, therefore, to be understood.

Miss Alcock, in her paper, speaks of tubular muscles belonging to the hyoid segment, which are attached to the muco-cartilage.

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