Designating or relating to a layer of mucus overlying a ciliated epithelium, which can be moved, together with any trapped foreign particles, in a particular direction by the action of the cilia.
Origin
1960s.
Definition of mucociliary in US English:
mucociliary
adjective
Physiology
Designating or relating to a layer of mucus overlying a ciliated epithelium, which can be moved, together with any trapped foreign particles, in a particular direction by the action of the cilia.