Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Containing mucus; mucoid.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as mucoid.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective pertaining to or resembling mucus

Etymologies

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From Greek μυξα ‘slime, mucus’.

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Examples

  • Almost 20 percent of the myxoid liposarcoma tumors studied had a mutated form of the gene PIK3CA.

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  • Almost 20 percent of the myxoid liposarcoma tumors studied had a mutated form of the gene PIK3CA.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Type (full-length or truncated) and level of expression varied with morphology and karyotype, with the highest levels in atypical lipomatous tumors and lipomas with rearrangements of 12q13-15 and the lowest in lipomas with 6p - or 13q-rearrangements, hibernomas, spindle cell lipomas and myxoid liposarcomas.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Hammurabi Bartuma 2009

  • In addition, they had ductal arrangements or plasmacytoid appearances of tumor cells and myxoid or hyaline stromata, indicating some characteristics of pleomorphic adenoma.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Satoshi Maruyama 2009

  • The lesion was surgically removed with a right hepatic lobectomy and the pathology was consistent with metastatic myxoid / round cell liposarcoma.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles John D Reith Christopher A Garces 2008

  • Less than one year after resection of a myxoid / round cell liposarcoma of the left lateral calf, a 61-year-old male presented with a CT scan showing a 2 cm low-density lesion in the right lobe of the liver.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles John D Reith Christopher A Garces 2008

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