mucostasis

noun

Etymology

From muco- + stasis.

  1. derived from στάσις
  2. borrowed from stasis
  3. prefixed as mucostasis — “muco + stasis

Definitions

  1. The state of the mucosal tissue of the jaws when in a resting position

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mucostasis. 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