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mucoadhesive

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 Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin adhaesivusbor. French adhésifder. English adhesive English mucoadhesive From muco- + adhesive.

  1. derived from adhaesivus
  2. derived from adhésif
  3. prefixed as mucoadhesive — “muco + adhesive”

Definitions

  1. That adheres to a mucous membrane.

  2. Any drug that adheres to a mucous membrane

The neighborhood

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