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Definition of Membrane-forming
1. Adjective. Characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane). "Membranous gastritis"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Membrane-forming
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 ..."