(a.) Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or secreting, mucilage; as, the mucilaginous glands.
(a.) Soluble in water, but not in alcohol; yielding mucilage; as, mucilaginous gums or plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Causative pathogens were Staphylococcus in 18 cases, Streptococcus in 4, Stomatococcus mucilaginous in 1, Corynebacterium J.K. in 1, Enterobacter in 3, Acinetobacter in 3 and Pseudomonas in 2.
(2) Dissolved substances constitute the external mucilaginous layer and elements intimately incrusted in the wall.
(3) The content of mucilaginous substances, respectively the capacity to swell is primarily a characteristic specific for the variety.
(4) The mucilaginous glucan consists of 1,3-linked beta-glucan chains with branches of single glucose units attached by beta-1,6 linkages on every third unit, on average, along the chain.
(5) On microscopic examination a cornified squamous cell carcinoma was found including interspersed mucilaginous adenocarcinoma tissue.
(6) Pigment was deposited in the form of melanin granules both within the cell wall and within mucilaginous excrescences that were developed irregularly over the hyphal surface.
(7) Macroalgae (seaweeds) produce a diversity of mucilaginous substances, some of which are of considerable commercial and biotechnological importance (e.g.
(8) A water-soluble arabinoxylan (D-xylose and L-arabinose in the molar ratio 1.0:3.4) was isolated from the mucilaginous bark of Litsea glutinosa (Lauraceae).
(9) Establishment of axenic strains from the Microcystis cells exhibiting extracellularly mucilaginous materials was successful by using a combination of the agar plate technique and two-step centrifugation.
(10) Developing mycelium with dispersed hyphae became mucilaginous after 17-20 h culture, which indicated the process of sinking but after 24 h some part of the mycelium developed normally.
(11) Certain parts of this highly insoluble R-glucan bear a close structural similarity to the mucilaginous glucan present at the outer wall surface and in the medium.
(12) Failures were due to a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in 3 cases, a relapsing Stomatococcus mucilaginous infection in 1, a Streptococcus faecalis in 1, an Acinetobacter in 3 and a Pseudomonas in 2.
(13) There were differences in uniformity of uptake, the solution binders (PVP and gelatin) being more evenly distributed than the mucilaginous binders (starch and methylcellulose).
(14) While similar preservation was obtained in sectioned acervuli of Lecanosticta acicola and Marssonia juglandis and in pycnidia of Dothiorella ribis and Phomopsis occulta, the mucilaginous substances produced in these fructifications precluded observation of conidiophores.
(15) Persistence of V. cholerae inside the mucilaginous sheath of A. variabilis was observed by phase-contrast and fluorescent microscopy for more than 15 months after inoculation.
(16) The mucilaginous gel from the parenchymatous cells in the leaf pulp of Aloe vera has been used since early times for a host of curative purposes.
(17) Sexually and asexually flocculent fission-yeast cells cannot be distinguished from one another as both are heavily clad in "mucilaginous" or "hairy" coverings.
(18) This is usually due to a tumor, which may be anything from a simple mucous membrane hyperplasia with extreme mucous formation, or an adenoma, to a mucilaginous adenocarcinoma.
Obtundent
Definition:
(n.) A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
(2) Results showed the greatest inhibition of noxious stimulus perception with Innovar-Vet, lesser inhibition with ketamine-xylazine and ketamine-diazepam, and the least obtunding of nociception with pentobarbital.
(3) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
(4) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
(5) Kynurenic acid significantly obtunded these behavioral and physiological effects, particularly when given 60-75 min after the toxic insult.
(6) Addition of adenosine deaminase to fat cells isolated from cold-exposed rats did not normalize the lipolytic activity, suggesting that extracellular adenosine was not responsible for the obtunded lipolysis.
(7) A 59-year-old man was admitted because of frequent vomiting and obtundation in February 1982.
(8) Propofol was more effective than methohexitone at obtunding the hypertensive response to electroconvulsive therapy without causing significant hypotension.
(9) Thus, although low doses of glucocorticoids foster development of the coupling of beta-receptors to cellular transduction mechanisms, higher doses such as those used to stimulate lung function may lastingly obtund adrenergic sensitivity.
(10) Neurologic dysfunction is characterized by lethargy, obtundation, persistent vomiting, agitated delirium, and coma.
(11) The current indications for lavage are obtundation, unprotected airway, seizures, the need for urgent removal, and the tendency to form concretions.
(12) Histoplasmosis in the CNS may produce meningitis, single or multiple brain abscesses, and may present with either a clinical picture of obtundation or a deteriorating space-occupying CNS lesion.
(13) Other variables with strong predictive potential were age (P less than 0.001), the presence of multiple disease states (P less than 0.01), therapy with multiple drugs (P less than 0.01) and acute stroke or obtundation on admission (P less than 0.01).
(14) As projected by this study, scleral heterografts might well be used to obliterate bony undercuts and perhaps to obtund cystic cavities and other major bony defects.
(15) The patient became progressively more obtunded throughout the emergency department stay.
(16) The effects of 3H-epinephrine on the duration of block and on the time course of uptake and efflux of local anesthetic (14C-lidocaine hydrochloride) were determined in the infraorbital nerve of the pentobarbital-obtunded rat.
(17) Contraindications for gastric lavage are similar to those for emesis except that it may be safer to use in obtunded, comatose, or uncooperative patients.
(18) I have described a fatal case of GGS meningitis and endocarditis in a previously healthy 84-year-old who had obtundation, irritability, and cellulitis.
(19) The toxicity of dCF alone was minimal, except for one patient who became obtunded on day 5 following the first cycle of therapy.
(20) Symptoms occurred between 30-180 min with the onset of central nervous system depression, ataxia, waxing and waning obtundation, hallucinations, intermittent hysteria or hyperkinetic behavior.