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English
Pronunciation
Noun
mucous membrane (plural mucous membranes)
- (anatomy) A membrane which secretes mucus. It forms the lining of various body passages that communicate with the air, such as the respiratory, genitourinary, and alimentary tracts including the mouth, nasal passages, vagina, and urethra.
- Synonyms: mucosa, mucous tunic, tunica mucosa
- Hypernyms: membrane, tissue < structure
- Coordinate terms: serous membrane, serosa
Translations
membrane which secretes mucus
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: selikli qişa
- Belarusian: слізістая абалонка f (slizistaja abalónka)
- Bulgarian: слизеста мембрана f (slizesta membrana)
- Catalan: membrana mucosa f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 黏膜 (zh) (niánmó)
- Czech: sliznice (cs) f
- Dutch: slijmvlies (nl) n
- Esperanto: mukozo
- Finnish: limakalvo (fi)
- French: muqueuse (fr) f
- Galician: membrana mucosa, mucosa (gl)
- Georgian: ლორწოვანი გარსი (lorc̣ovani garsi)
- German: Schleimhaut (de) f
- Greek: βλεννογόνος (el) m (vlennogónos)
- Hungarian: nyálkahártya (hu)
- Icelandic: slímhimna f
- Irish: scannán ronnach m
- Italian: mucosa (it) f
- Japanese: 粘膜 (ja) (nenmaku)
- Kazakh: шырышты қабық (şyryşty qabyq)
- Korean: 점막 (jeommak)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: lînceperde m
- Latvian: gļotāda f
- Lithuanian: gleivinė f
- Low German:
- German Low German: Sliemhüüt f
- Macedonian: слузница f (sluznica), лигавица f (ligavica)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: slimhinne (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: slimhinne f
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: błona śluzowa (pl) f, śluzówka (pl) f
- Portuguese: mucosa (pt) f
- Romanian: mucoasă (ro) f, membrană mucoasă f
- Romansch: mucosa f, pel mucosa f
- Russian: сли́зистая оболо́чка (ru) f (slízistaja obolóčka), сли́зистая ткань f (slízistaja tkanʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: cлузокожа f, слу́зница f
- Roman: sluzokoža f, slúznica (sh) f
- Slovak: sliznica (sk) f
- Slovene: sluznica f
- Spanish: mucosa (es) f, membrana mucosa f
- Swedish: slemhinna (sv) c, mukosa (sv) c
- Turkish: mukoza (tr), sümük doku (tr), sümüksü zar (tr)
- Ukrainian: слизова оболонка f (slyzova obolonka)
- Vietnamese: niêm mạc (vi), màng nhầy
- Volapük: slimaflid
- Welsh: pilen ludiog f
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