mucus: [17] Mucus was borrowed from Latin mūcus ‘nasal mucus’, which was related to two ancient verbs for ‘blow the nose’: Greek mússesthai and Latin ēmungere. The homophonic adjectival derivative mucous [17] (as in mucous membrane) comes from Latin mūcōsus. Related forms to have reached English are mucilage [14], from the late Latin derivative mūcilāgō, and moist. => moist, mucilage
mucus (n.)
1660s (replacing Middle English mucilage), from Latin mucus "slime, mold, mucus of the nose, snot," from PIE root *meug- "slippery, slimy," with derivatives referring to wet or slimy substances or conditions (cognates: Latin emungere "to sneeze out, blow one's nose," mucere "be moldy or musty," Greek myssesthai "to blow the nose," myxa "mucus," mykes "fungus," Sanskrit muncati "he releases"). Old English had horh, which may be imitative.
双语例句
1. The result is that the lungs clog up with a thick mucus.
检验结果是肺部被厚厚的黏液堵住了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Coughing clears the lungs of mucus.
咳嗽能清除肺里的黏液.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. My nose is stuffed up, ie full of mucus.
我的鼻子堵了(鼻涕多).
来自辞典例句
4. The patient expectorates mucus each morning shortly after rising.
患者每天清晨起床不久,就咳出粘液.
来自辞典例句
5. Commonly the muzzle is encrusted with mucus and exudate.
