submucosa

1. 1.

   the connective tissue beneath mucous membrane

   Broaderconnective tissue

Other forms of submucosa

plural

submucosae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about submucosa

What does submucosa mean?

submucosa means "the connective tissue beneath mucous membrane".

How many syllables are in submucosa?

submucosa has 4 syllables: sub-mu-co-sa. The stress falls on "mu".

Is submucosa a common word?

submucosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.