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Definition of Semipermeable membrane

1. Noun. A membrane (as a cell membrane) that allows some molecules to pass through but not others.

Medical Definition of Semipermeable membrane

1. A membrane that is selectively permeable to only one (or a few) solutes. The potential developed across a membrane permeable to only one ionic species is given by the Nernst equation for the species: this is the basis for the operation of ion selective electrodes. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Semipermeable membrane

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

1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"(3) There is an invisible semipermeable membrane outside of the vitelline membrane. As there is nothing to warrant the assumption of any semipermeable ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"The semipermeable membrane must in the first case act as an insulator; ... From this experiment it follows that the semipermeable membrane really acts as a ..."

3. Physiology and Biochemistry in Modern Medicine by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"In the physical experiments described above, the semipermeable membrane may be ... Such a semipermeable membrane would allow the saline constituents but not ..."

4. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"In other words, the ether has passed through the water into the chloroform, just as water passes through a semipermeable membrane into a salt solution. ..."

5. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"In other words, the ether has passed through the water into the chloroform, just as water passes through a semipermeable membrane into a salt solution. ..."

6. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"In other words, the ether has passed through the water into the chloroform, just as water passes through a semipermeable membrane into a salt solution. ..."

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