mucilloid

English

Etymology

mucil(age) +‎ -oid

Noun

mucilloid (countable and uncountable, plural mucilloids)

1. A substance prepared from mucilage.
   • 1951 March, “You Can Assure… adequate water, bulk, dispersion with METAMUCIL [advertisement]”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 185:

     METAMUCIL® is the highly refined mucilloid of Plantago ovata (50%), a seed of the psyllium group, combined with dextrose (50%) as a dispersing agent.

   • 2008, Bradford P. Smith, Large Animal Internal Medicine, page 757:

     Feeding psyllium mucilloid may promote colonic healing in horses with RDUC.

   • 2013 January, Barbara Grube, Pee-Win Chong, Kai-Zhia Lau, Hans-Dieter Orzechowski, “A Natural Fiber Complex Reduces Body Weight in the Overweight and Obese: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study”, in Obesity, volume 21, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, page 63:

     The effectiveness of dietary fiber in diminishing the number and severity of GI side effect was demonstrated in a pancreatic lipase inhibitor study, which concluded that the mucilloid of dietary fiber prevents the GI side effect, most probably by absorbing free fat (oil) (30).

Related terms

• mucilage
• mucilaginous
• mucoid

 

Further reading

• “mucilloid”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “mucilloid”, in Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, 7th edition, 2003