Mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior

Usage examples of mucosa.

The various appurtenances and projections of the complex molecules apparently adhere to different molecular receptors in the nasal mucosa, and the detectors for all the functional groups combine to put together a kind of collective olfactory image of the molecule.

Galaxy of Ribs, which had only just arrived smoky, fragrant, permeated with a notorious sauce waiting to jump the mucosae of yet another unwary diner and were already half gone.

Fingerlike projections of gastrointestinal mucosae lining the gut, main function being absorption of nutriments.

The hypnolfact on Sitor Ananta's palm penetrates the mucosa of Shau's eyes and instantly renders him slumberous.

Nausea, maybe, diarrhoea, dizziness, tinnitusthat's ringing in the earsbreathing difficulties, gastric haemorrhages, oedema of gastric mucosa, possible rupture of the oesophagus.

Nausea, maybe, diarrhoea, dizziness, tinnitus-that's ringing in the ears-breathing difficulties, gastric haemorrhages, oedema of gastric mucosa, possible rupture of the oesophagus.

The souls within those faces still—all too eloquently—lived, while every vermiculous grotto of them had its demonic gardener: an obese, vermillion starfish shape, all scabbed and barnacled with eyes, and which inched the slathering mucosae of its undersides across the quasi-human meadow.