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Membrane   /mˈɛmbrˌeɪn/   Listen
Membrane

noun
1.
A thin pliable sheet of material.
2.
A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants.  Synonym: tissue layer.



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... has this sucking fish got to do with it?" And I pointed to the red membrane already drying up ...
— Pieces of Eight • Richard le Gallienne

... distributions of substance, we find differences of tissue corresponding to differences of relative position. In all the higher Protozoa, as also in the Protophyta, we meet with a fundamental differentiation into cell-membrane and cell-contents, answering to that fundamental contrast of conditions implied by the words outside and inside. And on passing from what are roughly classed as unicellular organisms to the lowest of those which consist of aggregated cells, we equally observe the connexion ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer

... greenish-yellow colour, the tip of the bill being black, arcuated, and truncated. Nostrils large, round, open, and situated in the middle of the bill. Wings ample, third quill longest. Legs long, light dull-red, and naked to a little above the knee. Feet black, webbed, the membrane being deeply notched, great toe articulated to the metatarsus. Plumage slate-grey, with black spots upon the wings and back. Wing-feathers dusky black, and edged at the tip with pale grey. Irides ...
— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... size of a mignionette seed; the ear consists of two conjugate spikes, the grain being arranged on the outer edge of either spike, and alternated; they are attached by a peduncle to the husk. The epicarp, or outer membrane, ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... menstruation. This was the theory of Born and Fraenkel. [Footnote: See Biedl, Internal Secretory Organs (Eng. trans.), 1912, p. 404.] Biedl's conclusion is that the periodic development and disintegration of the uterine mucous membrane in the menstrual cycle is due to the hormone of the interstitial cells of the ovary. Leopold and Ravana found that ovulation as a rule coincides with menstruation, but may take place at any time. Here, again, the problem must be considered from the point ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham


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