mucoadherent

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)mewk-der. Proto-Italic *moukos Latin mūcus New Latinder. English muco- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Latin adhaerēnsder. Old French adherentbor. Middle English adherent English adherent English mucoadherent From muco- + adherent.

derived from adhaerēns
derived from adherent
inherited from adherent
prefixed as mucoadherent — “muco + adherent”

Definitions

Synonym of mucoadhesive.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mucoadherent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA