"membrane" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The egg has a delicate, leathery outer membrane enclosing the compressed lattice that surrounds a layer of olive-green spore-bearing slime called the gleba, which contains high levels of calcium that help protect the developing fruit body during development.
- The tip of the axon makes intimate contact with the sarcolemma (sahr'koh-Iem'ub; "skin of the flesh" G), which is the membrane enclosing the muscle fiber.
- Doctors say her treatment has been complicated by meningitis, a inflammation of the membranes enclosing the brain or the spinal cord.
- Doctors there, at the Boston University School of Medicine, discovered that she had meningitis, an infection of the membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord.
- They may be brightly colored, sometimes with a lattice- or veil-like membrane enclosing and protecting the spores.
- The membranes enclosing these tiny droplets are made of molecules called phospholipids, which resemble soap molecules in an important way - one end is attracted to water while the other end is repelled by water.
- A thin metallic membrane enclosing a vacuum chamber (a similar design is still used today in old-fashioned wall barometers) was gradually deformed as ambient air pressure increased during descent.
- Accumulating biochemical data strongly suggest that the double membrane enclosing chloroplasts and mitochondria derived from those of the ancestral bacteria, and the phagosomal membrane disappeared during organelle evolution.
- It began with membranes enclosing the chemistry of a single cell, perhaps four billion years ago.
- The membrane enclosing the vesicle is similar to that of the plasma membrane, and vesicles can fuse with the plasma membrane to release their contents outside of the cell.
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