Membrane synonyms

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partition
Division of a country into separate, autonomous nations.
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division
The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity:
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tissue layer
a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants
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surface (related)
The outer or the topmost boundary of an object.
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film (related)
A sheet or roll of a flexible cellulose material coated with an emulsion sensitive to light and used to capture an image for a photograph or film
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layer
A single thickness of a material covering a surface or forming an overlying part or segment:
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hymen
A membranous fold of tissue that partly or completely occludes the external vaginal orifice.
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septum
A thin wall or membrane that separates two parts or structures in an organism. Septae separate the chambers of the heart and subdivide the hyphae of some fungi.
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sheath
A covering or receptacle resembling this, as the membrane around a muscle, a leaf base enveloping a stem of grass, etc.
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substrate (related)
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tectorial (related)
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vesicle (related)
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capillary (related)
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bilayer (related)
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semipermeable (related)
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molecule (related)
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cavity (related)
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filament (related)
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cell (related)
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liposome (related)
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tissue (related)
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epithelial (related)
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cytoplasmic (related)
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chorion
(Botany) The outer membrane of seeds of plants.
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sheathing
(Nautical) An exterior covering on the underwater part of a ship's hull that protects it against marine growths.
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lamina
A very thin layer of material.
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amnion
A tough, thin membrane that forms a sac enclosing the embryo or fetus of a mammal, bird, or reptile. It is filled with a serous fluid in which the embryo or fetus is suspended.
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diaphragm
(Mechanics) A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber depending on the as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.
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peritoneum
(Anatomy) In mammals, the serous membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and that is folded over the viscera.
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serosa
A membrane which lines an internal cavity to protect the contents and which secretes serum.
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skin
Skin is the outer layer of something.
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cell-membrane (related)
A membrane surrounding a cell or cell part; esp., plasma membrane
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basolateral (related)
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  • Alex pulled the membrane from the foal's nose and stepped back.

  • Those organisms which possess the latter are a little higher in the scale of life than those which remain unclothed by it, but a comparison of the behaviour of the two quickly enables us to say that the membrane is of but secondary importance, and that for those which possess it, it is nothing more than a protective covering for the living substance.

  • 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.

  • When the connecting string is held taut and sounds, such as those of ordinary speech, are produced in front of one of the membranes, pulses corresponding to the fluctuations of the atmospheric pressure are transmitted along the string and communicated to the other membrane, which in its turn communicates them to the air, thus reproducing the sound.

  • The use of the term to mean the individualized nucleated mass of living protoplasm, which, whether with or without a limiting membrane, primitively forms the proximate histological element of the body of every organism, dates from the second quarter of the i9th century.

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