MUCILAGE

n. Muas'ial-eaj. Lat., mucilago (1st def.) (from mucere, to be moldy), mucago (1st def.) (from mucus, mucus). Fr., m. [Fr. Cod.] (1st def.). Ger.. Schleim (1st def.). 1. A pharmaceutical preparation consisting of an aqueous solution of a gum or of vegetable principles containing gums. IB.] 2. Of the Br. Ph., see Mucilago AMYLI. 3. See Vegetable m. Huile de m's (Fr.). See OLEUM mucilaginum. M. arabique (Fr.). See Mucilago ACACIS. M. mercuriel (Fr.). See ^ETHIOPS gummosus. >I. -plaster. See Emplastrum GALBANI. Vegetable m. Ger., pflanzlicher Schleim. Of Berzelius and others, a concrete exudation analogous in origin and structure to a gum, but distinguished from the latter by its property of swelling up in water into a glutinous ma without di olving; also the active principle of such an exudation which po e es the same property. M. occurs in numerous plants, notably in various orchids, and in marshmallow, quince-seeds, flaxseed, Iceland mo , cerasin, Ba ora gum, and ba or in. [B, 4, 5, 75.] [s. 36]