Synonym: covering, layer, tissue. Similar words: cell membrane, plasma membrane, remembrance, remembrancer, embrace, embrasure, encumbrance, embryo. Meaning: ['membreɪn] n. 1. a thin pliable sheet of material 2. a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals.
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61. The gene for membrane cofactor protein is the next target.
62. In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality.
63. The plastic membrane is treated to prevent this, and animal trials have shown no increased risk of clotting.
64. The nuclear membrane will not be re-formed until chromosome division is complete.
65. Before a virus can infect an animal cell it must first bind to specific receptor molecules embedded in the cell membrane.
66. The bat wing membrane still reveals traces of an apparatus originally constructed for gliding.
67. Others acquired a harder outer membrane to later become skin-like materials.
68. Most significantly, an interesting similarity to the human basement membrane heparan sulphate proteoglycan core protein was detected.
69. The electrons of chlorophyll molecules become excited and are ferried across the photosynthesis membrane by electron-grabbing molecules called quinones.
70. Thus, if the second-messenger network were to enter a domain of chaotic behavior, chaotic variation in membrane potential would result.
71. It is also known that, in some central nervous system neurones, second messengers especially cyclic AMPcontrol membrane electrical activity.
72. When the membrane breaks down, licensing factors from the cytoplasm gain access to the chromosomes.
73. The lateral membrane takes up the entire length of one side of the chamber, pushing the grapes against the other side.
74. Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane.
75. I opened my mouth and felt the scalds on the mucous membrane inside my throat.
76. Of considerable physiological importance are the membrane systems revealed by electron microscopy.
77. In light of these difficulties, attention has now shifted away from the membrane and toward the proteins embedded in the membrane.
78. The piece of membrane where all of this action takes place breaks off and is swallowed up by the cell.
79. Gore-Tex: microporous membrane, glued to various fabrics making them waterproof and breathable.
80. The distributional asymmetries of phospholipids in the plasma membrane of erythrocytes and platelets are shown in Fig. 2.
81. The plasma membrane is the medium through which all cells interact with their environment.
82. The thermodynamic constraints against their transverse diffusion across the bilayer are less that those of membrane proteins.
83. The sodium is only able to pass into the membrane through sodium ion channels distributed along the axon.
84. In reality it is a membrane, the pineal gland[sentencedict.com/membrane.html], regarded in the East as the seat of extra-sensory perception.
85. We no longer possess the Susan Membrane that would allow a Marine to enter a state of suspended animation.
86. Pinocytic vesicles were present near the plasma membrane and basement membrane was present around these cells.
87. The criterion for a gap junction was a minimum of 20 membrane particles in a plaque.
88. The nucleus thus formed divides and two cells develop within the outer membrane.
89. The nuclear membrane has broken down and the condensed chromosomes lie bunched together in the cytoplasm.
90. Sometimes the protein coat is itself enclosed within a fatty membrane.
More similar words: cell membrane, plasma membrane, remembrance, remembrancer, embrace, embrasure, encumbrance, embryo, member, embroil, umbra, remember, embroiled, umbrage, embryology, embroidery, membership, adumbrate, crane, brand, branch, brand new, intranet, vibrant, branding, firebrand, branch out, vibrancy, extraneous, mediterranean.