mucin 的定义
Biochemistry.
- any of a class of glycoproteins found in saliva, gastric juice, etc., that form viscous solutions and act as lubricants or protectants on external and internal surfaces of the body.
更多mucin例句
- This skeleton was composed of hard cartilage, and arose in white fibrous tissue containing gelatin rather than mucin.
- In its chemical composition there is a marked preponderance of gelatin with only a slight amount of a mucin-body.
- This fibrillation of mucus is regarded as the result of a coagulation of its mucin, previously held in solution by an alkali.
- In mucous tissue, however, there is present mucin, wholly independent of any epithelial degeneration.
- The intercellular substance of cartilaginous tumors also becomes softened and converted into a liquid containing mucin.