Definition of Membrane-forming

1. Adjective. Characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane). "Membranous gastritis"

Exact synonyms: Membranous
Similar to: Unhealthy
Derivative terms: Membrane

Lexicographical Neighbors of Membrane-forming

membrana thyrohyoidea
membrana tympani
membrana tympani secundaria
membrana versicolor
membrana vibrans
membrana vitellina
membranaceous
membranae intercostalia
membranal
membranate
membrane
membrane-bound proton-translocating PPi synthase
membrane-coating granule
membrane-forming (current term)
membrane-type 3 matrix metalloproteinase
membrane-type 4 matrix metalloproteinase
membrane-type matrix metalloproteinase
membrane attack complex
membrane bone
membrane capacitance
membrane depolarisation
membrane dipeptidase
membrane distillation
membrane enzyme
membrane expansion theory
membrane fluidity
membrane fracture
membrane fusion

Literary usage of Membrane-forming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Biochemistry for Students of Medicine, Agriculture and Related by Thorburn Brailsford Robertson (1920)
"It is, however, possible to increase the "charge" of membrane- forming agent in spermatozoa by sensitizing them with strontium chloride solution and ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"that some of the "membrane-forming substances" cause the egg membrane of the Mollusk Lottia to swell, but he admits that this is not true of all of them. ..."

3. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1903)
"They cover, also, all the surface of the epiglottis, and every other point of the laryngeal mucous membrane, forming, however, in this situation a network ..."

4. Artificial Parthenogenesis and Fertilization by Jacques Loeb (1913)
"If the time is long enough the membrane-forming substance may be given off to the egg and the membrane formed, before the spermatozoon has entered ..."

5. Osmotic Pressure Measurements of Glucose Solutions at 300, 400, 500 and 600 by Amos Sentman Musselman (1915)
"On the second and on the several succeeding runnings higher and still higher resistances are secured. The repetition of this membrane-forming process ..."

6. The Apodida: A Morphological Study by Henry Meyners Bernard (1892)
"In the main it may be said to consist of but one membrane, forming a tube ... The answer depends on the interpretation we give to the membrane forming the ..."

7. The Diseases of the ear: Their Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Joseph Toynbee, James Hinton (1868)
"... to draw slightly outwards, and to keep on the stretch, the membrane forming the outer wall of the Eustachian tube; the action of the levator ..."

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