What's the difference between mucilaginous and viscin?
Mucilaginous
Definition:
(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.
Viscin
Definition:
(n.) A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.