myxoid /myx·oid/ (mik´soid) mucoid.
myxoid.
mucoid [mu´koid]
myxoid
myx·oid (m k soid )adj. Containing or resembling mucus; mucoid. |
myxoid.
See mucoid, def. 1.
mucoid [mu´koid]
1. resembling mucus.
3. a mucus-like conjugated protein of animal origin, differing from mucin in solubility.
myxoid
resembling mucus.
myxoid
adjective 1. Mucin-like 2. 'Loose' pale-to-lightly basophilic stroma, as stained by H&E; the few cells present include fibroblasts and rare chronic inflammatory cells; myxoid stroma occurs in nodular fasciitis,
intramuscular myxoma, ganglion cyst, chordoma, neurofibroma, carcinomas, as well as spindle cell lipoma and lipoblastoma and in myxoid variants of sarcomas, which generally have a better prognosis Examples Rhabdomyosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, MFH,
liposarcoma.
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