mucosa

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• Rhymes: -əʊsə

mucosa (countable and uncountable, plural mucosae or mucosas)

1. (anatomy) Synonym of mucous membrane.
   • 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 29:

     The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] during oestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.

• mucosal (adj)
• submucosa

• camous

mucosa f sg

1. feminine singular of mucoso

mucosa f (plural mucose)

1. (anatomy) mucosa, mucous membrane

   Synonyms: membrana mucosa, tonaca mucosa

• camuso

mūcōsa

1. inflection of mūcōsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

mūcōsā

1. ablative feminine singular of mūcōsus

mucosa f (plural mucosas)

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

mucosa

1. feminine singular of mucoso

• IPA^(key): /muˈkosa/ [muˈko.sa]
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: mu‧co‧sa

mucosa f (plural mucosas)

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

mucosa

1. feminine singular of mucoso

• “mucoso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28