Sohu.com to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Results on January 29, 2018 BEIJING , Jan. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), China's leading online media, video, search and gaming business group, will report its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017 unaudited ...
A goblet cell is a glandular, modified simple columnar epithelial cell whose function is to secrete gel-forming mucins, the major components of mucus.
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Wikipedia. Goblet Cells. glandular epithelial cells in vertebrate animals and man that secrete mucus. Goblet cells are distributed individually in the mucous membranes of the intestine, air passages, efferent ducts of the pancreas and parotid glands, and the conjunctiva of the eyes. Goblet cells are formed from ordinary epithelial cells. The upper part of goblet cells, which is covered with microvilli, accumulates granules of secretion (mucinogen) that turn into a mass of mucus (mucin) when they absorb water.