mucosity

Noun

mucosity (countable and uncountable, plural mucosities)

1. (rare, uncountable) The state of being mucous or containing mucus.
   • In the smears made from the viscid pus of the kidney abscesses and the lung nodules, a micro-organism was found. This was a rather long, thick bacillus with rounded edges, and only staining with difficulty. The length varied between 0·5 to 0·8 microns. As a rule no characteristic grouping was...1908, K.F. Meyer, “Experimental studies on a specific purulent nephritis of equidae”, in Transvaal Department of Agriculture, editor, Report of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist, 1906-1907...

   Synonyms:

   mucousness

2. (archaic, countable) Mucous material: mucus; especially, snot, sputum, or phlegm.
   • The symptoms are constant sneezing and a discharge of a limpid, yellow or green mucosity from the nostrils. The infant, contrary to its usual habit, sleeps with the mouth open, it sucks with difficulty, as its respiration is impeded, and its snuffling is more or less intense. In some cases the...1835 October 17, Michael Ryan, “Lecture LI: Vices of Conformation, and Intra-uterine and Extra-uterine Diseases of the Respiratory Apparatus. In: Lectures on the Physical Education and Diseases of...
   • Billard states very accurately that there exists, as it were, but a degree between the thick tenacious, filamentous mucosity with which inflamed mucous membranes cover themselves, and the membranous exudation of croup. The membrane of croup presents nearly the same chemical elements as this...1840 January 10, “Analyses and notices of books: A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants, founded on recent Clinical Observations and Investigations in Pathological Anatomy, made at the Hospice des...