Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing mucus; mucoid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mucoid .
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- adjective pertaining to or resembling
mucus
Etymologies
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Examples
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Almost 20 percent of the myxoid liposarcoma tumors studied had a mutated form of the gene PIK3CA.
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Almost 20 percent of the myxoid liposarcoma tumors studied had a mutated form of the gene PIK3CA.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Type (full-length or truncated) and level of expression varied with morphology and karyotype, with the highest levels in atypical lipomatous tumors and lipomas with rearrangements of 12q13-15 and the lowest in lipomas with 6p - or 13q-rearrangements, hibernomas, spindle cell lipomas and myxoid liposarcomas.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Hammurabi Bartuma 2009
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In addition, they had ductal arrangements or plasmacytoid appearances of tumor cells and myxoid or hyaline stromata, indicating some characteristics of pleomorphic adenoma.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Satoshi Maruyama 2009
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The lesion was surgically removed with a right hepatic lobectomy and the pathology was consistent with metastatic myxoid / round cell liposarcoma.
BioMed Central - Latest articles John D Reith Christopher A Garces 2008
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Less than one year after resection of a myxoid / round cell liposarcoma of the left lateral calf, a 61-year-old male presented with a CT scan showing a 2 cm low-density lesion in the right lobe of the liver.
BioMed Central - Latest articles John D Reith Christopher A Garces 2008
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