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mucinosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mu-ci-nosis
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a group of cutaneous diseases caused by fibroblasts producing abnormally large amounts of acid mucopolysaccharides (i.e. mucin), usually hyaluronic acid

Etymology

From mucin + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mucinoses (plural)

Derived Forms

adenomucinosis mucinoma

Questions

What does mucinosis mean?
Any of a group of cutaneous diseases caused by fibroblasts producing abnormally large amounts of acid mucopolysaccharides (i.e. mucin), usually hyaluronic acid
Where does mucinosis come from?
From mucin + -osis.

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