Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, producing or generating mucus.

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  • adjective Generating mucus.

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  • adjective Generating mucus.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • Students disputed whether the conjunctiva extended over the cornea or not, and worried themselves over Gaultier de Claubry's stratified layers of the skin, or Breschet's blennogenous and chromatogenous organs.

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Students disputed whether the conjunctiva extended over the cornea or not, and worried themselves over Gaultier de Claubry's stratified layers of the skin, or Breschet's blennogenous and chromatogenous organs.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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