mucous tissue

mucous tissue
mucous tissue n a gelatinous connective tissue that contains stellate cells with long processes in a soft matrix and that occurs in the umbilical cord and in the embryo and in myxomas

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a jellylike mucoid connective tissue, such as occurs in the umbilical cord.

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