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mucolytic

mucolytic adjective: serving to dissolve mucus.

Adjective

mucolytic (not comparable)

  1. Serving to dissolve mucus.

Noun

mucolytic (plural mucolytics)

  1. A mucolytic agent.

mucolytic meaning in Tamil

mucolytic in Tamil

சளிகரைக்கின்ற, சளியழிக்கின்ற

Forms of mucolytic

pluralmucolytics

Origin of mucolytic

From muco- + -lytic or mucolysis + -ic.

Words formed from mucolytic

Questions about mucolytic

What does mucolytic mean?
Mucolytic means serving to dissolve mucus.
What is mucolytic in Tamil?
Mucolytic in Tamil is சளிகரைக்கின்ற, சளியழிக்கின்ற. See Mucolytic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is mucolytic?
Mucolytic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near mucolytic in the dictionary

  1. mucolipidoses
  2. mucolipidosis
  3. mucolipin
  4. mucolipins
  5. mucolysis
  6. mucolytic
  7. mucolytically
  8. mucolytics
  9. mucometra
  10. mucomimetic
  11. muconasal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mucolytic (page history and authors); mucolytic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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