Membrane

Definitions: Membrane

Membrane

Noun

1. A thin pliable sheet of material.

2. A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "membrane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Membrane \Mem"brane\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression membrana the skin that covers the separate members of the body, from the Latin expression membrum. See Member.]. (Websters 1913)

Building & Civil Engineering

Health

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Synonym: Membrane

Layer

Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar.

Crosswords: Membrane

French (diaphragm, membrane), German (diaphragm, membrane).

There's the nasal membrane (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Midrange, migrained, cancered membrane ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash)

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Books

• Membrane Activation in Immunologically Relevant Cells (Progress in Allergy, Vol 42) (reference)

• Membrane and Flashing Indexes for Built-Up Roofs-Inspection and Distress Manual (Research Reports, No 90-1) (reference)

• Studies of membrane assembly and regulation of the tsr chemoreceptor in Escherichia coli (reference)

• GPI-Anchored Membrane Proteins and Carbohydrates (reference)

• Hyaline Membrane Disease, Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology (reference)

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Periodicals

• Ca Selects: Membrane Separation (reference)

• Membrane And Separation Technology News (reference)

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Music

• Delicate Membrane (reference)

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High Tech

• Key Tronic 104-Key Win 95 LT Classic Keyboard Membrane with AT Adapter (reference)

• Microspeed Inc. Keyboard Deluxe 101Key Membrane At. PS/2 Notebook Connector (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Proteins in the cytoplasm target and activate biochemical reactions in specific cellular components, such as the mitochondria and the nucleus. Within the nucleus, gene expression is activated and leads to new protein synthesis, which are formed on the endoplasmic reticulum. These proteins are transported via the Golgi complex for packaging and distribution to cellular membrane and for extracellular release. See artwork: (on disk in file).Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist).

A. Peripheral blood leukocyte from an AIDS patient producing HIV. There are several particles budding from the periphery of the cell. Other virus particles cluster outside the cell membrane. (x30) b. Enlargement of far right center area of top photo showing mature HIV particles. (x90) c. HIV particle budding from cell membrane. (x200) d. Mature hiv particle with characteristic core. (x200). See artwork: GR-07.Credit: Matt Gonda (photographer).

Poxviruses are very easy to isolate, and will grow in a variety of cell cultures, producing characteristic hemorrhagic pocks on the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM).Credit: CDC.

Chorioallantoic membrane infected with variola, stained with rabbit anti-vaccinia conjugate, then viewed using immunofluorescent microscopy technique.Credit: CDC.

Gross pathology of membrane and hydatid daughter cysts from human lung. Parasite.Credit: CDC.

A sixteenth-inch-long female biting midge, Culicoides sonorensis, feeds blood delivered through artificial membrane developed for mass insect rearing. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

This image represents the equilibration of osmotic stress among the phase under study and the external stressing solution in vast excess across a semipermeable membrane. At equilibrium the osmotic pressure of the stressing solution is identical to the osmotic pressure stressing the subphase.Credit: NICHD.

As the external osmotic pressure stresses the subphase, water (as well as small solutes) is exchanged across the semipermeable membrane. The free energy change connected with the water exchange is equal to the osmotic work.Credit: NICHD.

Osmotic stress can be generated even when no semipermeable membrane is present to define the subphase. This happens when there are regions of steric exclusion of the stressing polymer. Every region of steric exclusion feels the osmotic stress generated by the excluded polymer.Credit: NICHD.

Schematic presentation of the system DNA + salt + counterions + PEG at an equilibrium across a semipermeable membrane. The membrane is impermeable to PEG and DNA. There is however no obstruction to the motion of small ions (Picture courtesy H.H. Strey, NIH).Credit: NICHD.

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There is no appearance of a membrane about them.

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Health

All are enveloped in a lipid (fat) membrane. (references)

C. Notice the glycoprotein spikes in the outer membrane bilayer. (references)

First the toxic protein attaches to the presynaptic nerve membrane. (references)

Business

Market analysts report that currently the majority of membrane technologies are already imported from the United States. (references)

Advanced technologies have not been adopted including ion exchange, chromatographic fractionation, membrane separation, statically separation filiation, mercury cathode electrolysis, vapor liquidation, and column separation. (references)

A 1999 report from the Thai Board of Investment noted that Thai-made water and wastewater equipment (pumps, valves, controllers, aerators, osmosis systems, treatment chemicals, sludge presses and membrane filtration systems) were often of insufficient quality to meet industry and government standards, which opened up possibilities for foreign imports as well as joint ventures between Thai and foreign investors to improve Thai domestic production. (references)

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Expressions using "membrane": Adventitious membrane ♦ air vessel with membrane ♦ Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease ♦ arachnoid membrane ♦ Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins ♦ Basement Membrane ♦ basilar membrane ♦ Bowman's membrane ♦ Bronchial membrane ♦ Bruch Membrane ♦ buried asphalt membrane lining ♦ cell membrane ♦ Cell Membrane Permeability ♦ Cell Membrane Structures ♦ cerebral membrane ♦ chorioallantoic membrane ♦ Complement Membrane Attack Complex ♦ Corti's membrane ♦ cribriform membrane ♦ cuticular layer of tympanic membrane ♦ Demours membrane ♦ Descemet's membrane ♦ embryonic membrane ♦ Epiretinal Membrane ♦ Erythrocyte Membrane ♦ Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ♦ False membrane ♦ fertilization membrane ♦ fetal membrane ♦ Germinal membrane ♦ Hyaline membrane disease ♦ hyaloid membrane ♦ Jacob's membrane ♦ membrane bone ♦ Membrane Fluidity ♦ Membrane Fusion ♦ Membrane Glycoproteins ♦ membrane ion pump ♦ Membrane Lipids ♦ Membrane Microdomains ♦ membrane potential ♦ Membrane Potentials ♦ Membrane Proteins ♦ membrane tank ♦ membrane valve ♦ membrane virus ♦ mesenteric membrane ♦ mucous membrane ♦ Nictitating membrane ♦ Otolithic Membrane ♦ pit membrane ♦ plasma membrane ♦ Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins ♦ posterior basal membrane ♦ Purple Membrane ♦ Reissner's membrane ♦ Schneiderian membrane ♦ semipermeable membrane ♦ serous membrane ♦ synovial membrane ♦ tectorial membrane ♦ tympanic membrane ♦ Tympanic Membrane Perforation ♦ virginal membrane ♦ Vitelline Membrane. Additional references.

Beginning with "membrane": membrane-associated, membrane-attached, membrane-bound, membrane-covered, membrane-encased, membrane-forming, membrane-like, membrane-mimicking, membrane-osmometers, membrane-spanning, membrane-thin, membrane-transducing, membrane-type.

Ending with "membrane": wing-membrane.

Albanian

membranë (diaphragm, envelope, involucre, pellicle, tunic, Tunica, valve, webbing), lëmesë, cipë (aril, film, fur, husk, integument, involucre, Peel, peeling, pellicle, tegument). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غشاء حيواني أو نباتي, ‏غشاء (capsule, diaphragm, envelope, film, integument, overlay, tegument, velum). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ципа (coat, cuticle, envelope, envelopment, shell, skin, velum), кожица (coat, pellicle), мембрана (coat, diaphragm, pickup, velum). (various references)

Chinese 

膜, 薄膜 (film). (various references)

Czech

membrána (diaphragm), blána (film). (various references)

Danish

membran (barrier in isotope separation, diaphragm, envelope, liner, septum). (various references)

Dutch

membraan (diaphragm, envelope). (various references)

Farsi 

پوسته (Case, Chaff, Cod, Cortex, Shuck), پوست (Cortex, Cuticle, Hide, Hull, Husk, Peel, Peeling, Rind, Shale, Shell, Skin, Slough), پوشه (Jacket, Wrapper), پرده (Blind, Curtain, Screen, Veil), غشاء (Curtain, Scruff), شامه (Smell). (various references)

Finnish

kalvo (film, pellicle). (various references)

French

membrane. (various references)

German

Membrane (diaphragm), Membran (diaphragm). (various references)

Greek 

μεμβράνη (film, pellicle, web). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממברנה, קרומית (pellicle), קרום מסנן, קרום (film, rind, skin). (various references)

Hungarian

membrán (diaphragm, skin), hártya (film, scale, skin, tarnish). (various references)

Indonesian

selaput. (various references)

Italian

membrana (diaphragm, film). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

膜 (film), 皮膜 (film). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひまく (capsule, film, tunic), まく (film, to coil, to roll, to scatter, to sow, to sprinkle, to wind). (various references)

Korean 

막. (various references)

Manx

scannane sooilley (nictating membrane). (various references)

Pig Latin

embranemay

Portuguese

membrana (bridle, connective, diaphragm, film, memento, tunic). (various references)

Romanian

membranã (coat, film, pellicle, tunic). (various references)

Russian 

мембрана (capsule, diaphragm). (various references)

Scottish

sgann (a membrane, a multitude, drove, herd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

membrana (diaphragm, tunica), opna (coat, tunic, tunica, velum). (various references)

Spanish

membrana (web). (various references)

Swedish

membran (diaphragm, pellicle), hinna (attain, catch, coat, coating, find time, have time, integument, involucre, reach, scum, skin, velum). (various references)

Thai

เยื่อบุผิว. (various references)

Turkish

zar (bones, cortes, die, film, integument, lamina, pellicle, skin, tegument, velum, wall). (various references)

Turkmen 

perde (action, curtain). (various references)

Ukranian 

оболонка (capsule, carcass, casing, casket, coma, covering, envelope, operculum, rind, sheath, shell, skin, tunic), мембрана (capsule, diaphragm). (various references)

Vietnamese 

màng (film, involucre, involucrum). (various references)

Welsh

pilen (cataract, film). (various references)

membrana. (various references)

pelete. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "membrane": membraned, membranes. (additional references)

Words ending with "membrane": cytomembrane, intermembrane, transmembrane. (additional references)

Words containing "membrane": cytomembranes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Membrane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mamyrin, Mcmorran, membering, Membland, membrain, membraine, membrains, membran, membranbe, membrance, Nebmare, Neemrana, sembrare. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ambeer, barmen, bemean, bename, meaner, member, merman, mermen, rename.

-3 letters: amber, ameer, berme, bream, embar, ember, emmer, enema, namer, ramee, ramen, ranee, reman.

-4 letters: amen, bane, bare, barm, barn, beam, bean, bear, been, beer, bema, bene, berm, brae, bran, bree, bren, earn, erne, mabe, mane, mare, mean, meme, mere, nabe, name, near, neem.

+1 letter: membraned, membranes.

+2 letters: embarkment.

+3 letters: embarkments, embracement, remembrance, unmemorable.

+4 letters: cytomembrane, embracements, immensurable, remembrancer, remembrances.

+5 letters: commensurable, cytomembranes, embarrassment, embranglement, intermembrane, memorableness, recommendable, remembrancers, transmembrane.

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