The following reply was received: “So far as I know, nobody ever thought of or proposed the use of an extract of rete mucosum as a therapeutic agent and if a serious suggestion of that sort had ever been made I believe I would know it.
The epithelia of the rete mucosum are swollen and stretched.
This observer[83] claimed that the epithelioid element of cutaneous cancers arose in all instances from pre-existing epithelium, either of the rete mucosum or cutaneous glands.
Section of the rete mucosumand papillae from the same case of pemphigus as Fig.
Prolongations of the rete mucosum between the papillae.
Over the rete mucosum is spread a fine transparent membrane, called the cuticle, or scarf skin, which defends the organ of feeling from the action of the air, and other things which would irritate it too powerfully.
The real skin is white in the inhabitants of every climate; but the rete mucosum is of various colours, being white in Europeans, olive in Asiatics, black in Africans, and copper coloured in Americans.
Footnote 081: Diseases have a great effect upon the mucosum corpus, but particularly the jaundice, which turns it yellow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mucosum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
