Word Meanings - MUCIGENOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Connected with the formation of mucin; resembling mucin. The mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell. Foster.

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• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• PROTOPLASMIC
  Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• BASISOLUTE
  Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
• MUCINOGEN
  See MUCIGEN
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• BASISPHENOID; BASISPHENOIDAL
  Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
• MANUFACTURE
  1. The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency. 2. Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.
• MUCIGENOUS
  Connected with the formation of mucin; resembling mucin. The mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell. Foster.
• EXPENSEFULL
  Full of expense; costly; chargeable. Sir H. Wotton. -- Ex*pense"ful*ly, adv. -- Ex*pense"ful*ness, n.
• MANUFACTURER
  One who manufactures.
• ORDINARYSHIP
  The state of being an ordinary. Fuller.
• EXPENSE
  1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak. 2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense
• FOSTERLING
  A foster child.
• FORMATION
  The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc. Farrow. (more info) 1. The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie. 2. The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
• BASIS
  1. The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests. Dryden. 2. The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue. If no basis bear my rising name. Pope. 3. The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports. The basis of
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• DEFORMATION
  1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• SARCOBASIS
  A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• MALECONFORMATION
  Malconformation.
• ECBASIS
  A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
• EFFORMATION
  The act of giving shape or form. Ray.