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Another word for membrane

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Noun

  1. A thin outer covering of an object

      1. The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.
      2. An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal:
      3. A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer:
      1. A layer of boards or of other wood or fiber materials applied to the outer studs, joists, and rafters of a building to strengthen the structure and serve as a base for an exterior weatherproof cladding.
      2. An exterior covering on the underwater part of a ship's hull that protects it against marine growths.
      3. The act of providing sheathing.
      1. A usually close-fitting case or covering for a blade, as of a sword.
      2. Any of various similar coverings.
      3. An enveloping tubular structure, such as the base of a grass leaf that surrounds the stem or the tissue that encloses a muscle or nerve fiber.
      1. A thin plate, sheet, or layer.
      2. The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.
      3. The bladelike part of a kelp.
    See also:

    surface

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Another word for membrane

Noun
      1. A thin plate, sheet, or layer.
      2. The expanded area of a leaf or petal; a blade.
      3. The bladelike part of a kelp.
      1. A usually close-fitting case or covering for a blade, as of a sword.
      2. Any of various similar coverings.
      3. An enveloping tubular structure, such as the base of a grass leaf that surrounds the stem or the tissue that encloses a muscle or nerve fiber.
      1. One that lays:
      2. A hen kept for laying eggs.
      3. A single thickness of a material covering a surface or forming an overlying part or segment:
    See also:

    film

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Sentence Examples

  • Alex pulled the membrane from the foal's nose and stepped back.

  • pit-threads whIch traverse the closing membrane of the pits in the FIG.

  • 16), extending between the fenestra ovalis and the tympanic membrane or drum, consists of (I) the long and slen der columella, a straight, ossified rod which fits with a disk into the fenestra r; t st ovalis; it is homologous with the stapes (m.st.), although not stirrupshaped; (2) the extra-columellar mass.

  • HaberIandt has shown that in plant cells, when any new formation of membrane is to take place in a given spot, the nucleus is found in its immediate vicinity; and Klebs found that only that portion of the protoplasm of a cell which contains the nucleus is capable of forming a cell-wall; whilst Townsend has further shown that if the non-nucleated mass is connected by strands of protoplasm to the nucleated mass, either of the same cell or of a neighboring cell, it retains the power of forming a cell-membrane.

  • The Structure of the Nucleus.In the living condition the resting nucleus appears to consist of a homogeneous ground substance containing a large number of small chromatin granules and one or more large spherical granulesnucleolithe whole being surrounded by a limiting membrane which separates it from the cytoplasm.

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