Definition of "mucinous" [mucinous]

• Of, pertaining to or containing mucin (adjective)

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• "Her dark suspicions proved out: McBride had a rare form of breast cancer, called mucinous carcinoma, and the pain was from a rather large and advanced tumor."
• "Oh, and my chemo is for a mucinous carcinoma that originated from my colon."
• "Quayle underwent an appendectomy last Wednesday and his doctors said the growth, a mucinous cystadenoma, showed no evidence of malignancy."