membrane

See also: Membrane

English

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membrane

Wikipedia

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin membrāna (“skin or membrane that covers parts of the body”), from membrum (“a limb or member of the body”) +‎ -āna. Doublet of membrana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm.bɹeɪn/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ɛmbɹeɪn

Noun

membrane (plural membranes)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.

   Hyponyms: aperture membrane, basement membrane, Bruch's membrane, cyclitic membrane, Descemet's membrane, hyaloid membrane, Jacob's membrane, mucous membrane, nictating membrane, nictitating membrane, Reissner's membrane, ruptured membrane, Schneiderian membrane, serous membrane, synovial membrane, tectorial membrane, tympanic membrane, virginal membrane, Zinn's membrane

   1. A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.

      Hyponym: single-ply membrane

   2. A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
      • 2016 January 14, Jessica Hall, “Nanoengineers build 'microcannons' that fire light-up bullets filled with drugs”, in ExtremeTech‎:

        Then they backed the membrane with a gel matrix containing a perfluorocarbon (PFC) propellant and fluorescent "nanobullets" about a micron wide, and hit it with ultrasound.

   3. (biology) A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.

      Hyponyms: cell membrane, haptogenic membrane, ion-selective membrane, nuclear membrane, plasma membrane

2. A piece of parchment forming part of a roll.

Derived terms

• biomembrane
• Bruch's membrane
• cell membrane
• complement membrane attack complex
• cytomembrane
• cytoplasmic membrane
• demembranated
• endomembrane
• exomembrane
• extramembrane
• geomembrane
• hemimembrane
• hyaline membrane disease
• ice dam membrane
• insane in the membrane
• integral membrane protein
• intermembrane
• intramembrane
• juxtamembrane
• membranaceous
• membranal
• membranate
• membrane attack complex
• membrane-bone
• membrane bone
• membranectomy
• membraned
• membrane distillation
• membrane filtration
• membrane keyboard
• membraneless
• membranelike
• membrane mimetic chemistry
• membraneous
• membrane potential
• membrane protein
• membrane separation
• membranic
• membraniferous
• membraniform
• membranized
• membranoid
• membranology
• membranome
• membranopathy
• membranophone
• membranosome
• membranotropic
• membranotropism
• membranous
• micromembrane
• monomembrane
• multimembrane
• mycomembrane
• nanomembrane
• neomembrane
• neuromembrane
• nonmembrane
• perimembrane
• peripheral membrane protein
• premembrane
• protected membrane roof
• pseudomembrane
• rupture of membranes
• submembrane
• supermembrane
• supramembrane
• thyrohyoid membrane
• transmembrane

Translations

enclosing or separating tissue

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: غِشَاء m (ḡišāʔ) Armenian: թաղանթ (hy) (tʻaġantʻ) Asturian: membrana f Azerbaijani: qişa Belarusian: мембра́на f (mjembrána), мэмбра́на f (membrána), перапо́нка f (pjerapónka), бало́на f (balóna), бало́нка f (balónka) Bulgarian: ци́па (bg) f (cípa), мембра́на (bg) f (membrána) Catalan: membrana (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 膜 (zh) (mó), 薄膜 (zh) (bómó) Czech: membrána (cs) f, blána (cs) f Danish: membran (da) c Dutch: membraan (nl) n Esperanto: membrano Estonian: kile, membraan Finnish: kalvo (fi) French: membrane (fr) f Galician: membrana (gl) f, teaz f German: Membran (de) f, Membrane (de) f, Häutchen n Greek: μεμβράνη (el) f (memvráni), υμένας (el) m (yménas) Ancient: ὑμήν m (humḗn), μῆνιγξ f (mêninx) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: झिल्ली (hi) f (jhillī) Hungarian: hártya (hu) Icelandic: himna (is) Indonesian: membran (id) Ingrian: obolocka Irish: scannán m, seicin f Italian: membrana (it) f, pergamena (it) f Japanese: 膜 (ja) (まく, maku) Khmer: ភ្នាស (km) (phniəh) Korean: 막(膜) (ko) (mak) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: perde (ku) f Latin: membrāna f Latvian: membrāna f, plēve f Lithuanian: membrana f, plėvė f Macedonian: ци́па f (cípa), мембра́на f (membrána) Malay: kulipis Malayalam: ചർമ്മം (ml) (caṟmmaṁ) Mansi: Northern Mansi: сыквар (sykvar) Maori: rīrapa, tewe, kiriuhi Mongolian: Cyrillic: хальс (mn) (xalʹs) Norwegian: Bokmål: membran m, hinne (no) m or f Nynorsk: membran m, hinne f Ottoman Turkish: زار (zar) Persian: شامه (fa) (šāme) Polish: błonka f, membrana (pl) f, zakrywka f, błona (pl) f Portuguese: membrana (pt) f Romanian: membrană (ro) f, membrane f pl Russian: мембра́на (ru) f (membrána), перепо́нка (ru) f (perepónka), оболо́чка (ru) f (obolóčka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀пна f, мембра́на f Roman: òpna (sh) f, membrána (sh) f Slovak: membrána f, blana f Slovene: opna (sl) f, membrana (sl) f Spanish: membrana (es) f Swedish: membran (sv), hinna (sv) Tagalog: lamad, bamban Telugu: పొర (te) (pora) Thai: เยื่อ (th) (yʉ̂ʉa), เนื้อเยื่อ (th) (nʉ́ʉa-yʉ̂ʉa) Turkish: zar (tr) Ukrainian: мембра́на f (membrána), пере́тинка f (perétynka), оболо́нка (uk) f (obolónka) Urdu: پردہ m (parda) Vietnamese: màng (vi)

mechanical part

Armenian: թաղանթ (hy) (tʻaġantʻ) Azerbaijani: membran Belarusian: мембра́на f (mjembrána), мэмбра́на f (membrána) Bulgarian: мембра́на (bg) f (membrána) Chinese: Mandarin: 薄膜 (zh) (bómó) Czech: membrána (cs) f, blána (cs) f Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: membraan (nl) n Finnish: kalvo (fi) German: Membran (de) f, Membrane (de) f Greek: μεμβράνη (el) f (memvráni), (physiology) υμένας (el) m (yménas) Icelandic: himna (is) Indonesian: membran (id) Italian: membrana (it) Malayalam: പടലം (ml) (paṭalaṁ) Norwegian: Bokmål: membran m, hinne (no) m or f Nynorsk: membran m, hinne f Persian: شامه (fa) (šāme) Polish: membrana (pl) f Portuguese: membrana (pt) f Russian: мембра́на (ru) f (membrána) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀пна f, мембра́на f Roman: òpna (sh) f, membrána (sh) f Swedish: membran (sv), hinna (sv) Ukrainian: мембра́на f (membrána)

flexible covering

Chinese: Mandarin: 薄膜 (zh) (bómó) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kermi (fi) Ottoman Turkish: زار (zar)

References

• “membrane”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “membrane”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

membrane

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin membrāna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.bʁan/

Noun

membrane f (plural membranes)

1. membrane

Derived terms

• membrane clignotante
• membrane déciduale
• membrane haptogène
• membrane plasmique

Further reading

• “membrane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

membrane f pl

1. plural of membrana

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /memˈbra.ne/

Noun

membrane

1. plural of membrană