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Mucous membranes are derived from the ectoderm, not the endoderm. The endoderm structures are all inside the body. It is the ectoderm which forms skin, hair, teeth, nails, mucous membranes, the lens of the eye, the cornea, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.153.161.33 (talk) 20:57, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello , this is confusing ...
are both 'mucous membranes' or is this a 'typing' mistake to show a picture with the explaination text 'ureter' while in the introduction 'urethra' is mentioned? 178.145.86.124 (talk) 09:55, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
"The mucous membranes (or mucosae; singular mucosa) are linings of mostly endodermal origin, covered in epithelium, which are involved in absorption and secretion."
I mean, come on! If I knew what all the rest of the sentence meant, I wouldn't need Wikipedia to tell me what mucous membranes are. Why can't you write in plain English to an audience who's not versed in this kind of jargon? 89.139.59.233 (talk) 11:07, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Not every mucous membrane secretes mucus? Does this mean the mucous membrane is just a membrane and does not always contain glands to excrete mucus? Redtails (talk) 22:31, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm new here, so i don't know where to talk about the article, I hope I'm at the right place. My problem with the article is that the mucous membrane consists three layers: lamina epithelialis mucosae, lamina propria mucosae, and lamina muscularis mucosae. (W. Kuehnel- Color atlas of cytology, histology, and microscopic anatomy) Lamina muscularis mucosae isn't noted in the text. If you agree with me, please correct it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tooth.benedek (talk • contribs) 12:35, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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Needless fragmentation, would benefit readers to have this on a single page rather than fragmented into two separate articles. LT910001 (talk) 23:52, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
No consensus I have removed the merge tags without performing the merges. --Tom (LT) (talk) 22:48, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
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I was confused, and i'll be looking to see if any of my confusion could have been avoided by slightly different choices of wording. In any case, here's a usage/grammar guide:
I haven't made the effort (even to the extent of reading further in the article) to learn all the reasons why the word is countable, and if i were using it, i would be wary about whether e.g. one person has a single nasal membrane or e.g. two nasal mucosae --one in each nostril-- or (in a not necessarily ridiculous flight of fancy) an odd number of nasal mucosae (perhaps e.g. a left distal and a right distal mucosa (one inside each nostril), plus a single medial (anatomy) mucosa that wraps (behind and above the nostrils) around that beloved chunk of cartilage (nasal septum?) that separates the two nostrils. (Surely two unrelated people have distinct mucosae, but if a mucosa gets cut in half, is it then just one (split) mucosa or --perhaps only until surgically repaired-- two separate nasal mucosae?) I'm not sure dicts clarify that, but even if they do, that kind of problem is specialized enuf that it may be more effectively covered in WP than in Wikt or any other dict.
I think i will add a bit of (arguably lexicographic and thus dubiously encyclopedic) text, stating that mucosae is the plural -- since i am not alone in never having studied Latin -- thus immunizing others against the confusion i experienced. I trust my colleagues to deliberate whether my enthusiasm has again run away with me.
--Jerzy•t 05:35, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
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