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impression material (medicine) and membrane (iou)


impression material (medicine)


impression material


Any substance or combination of substances used for making a negative reproduction or impression.


membrane (iou)



membrane noun. LME.
[(French membrane from) Latin membrana skin covering part of the body, use as noun of fem. adjective (sc. cutis skin) from membrum limb, MEMBER noun.]
a. Anatomy & Biology. Any thin, pliable, usu. fibrous sheet or layer of tissue, freq. serving to separate Other structures or to line a part or organ; the tissue of which this is formed. LME.
basement membrane, mucous membrane, pit membrane, etc.
b. Medicine. A thin sheetlike structure formed as a result of disease. M18.
c. Cytology. Any of various thin, fluid, semipermeable lipid bilayers with included proteins which form structures within living cells, esp. more fully (cell membrane) that which bounds the cell. L19.
PLASMA membrane.
Orig., parchment. Now, each of the parts of a parchment roll. LME.
Any thin extended sheetlike barrier of material. L19.
P. Davies The surface of a balloon..is a membrane of rubber.
Comb.: membrane-bone a bone which develops from membranous connective tissue, not cartilage; membrane filter: made of cellulosic material and capable of retaining objects as small as bacteria, used in microbiology and water purification; membrane filtration: by means of a membrane filter.
membraneless adjective L19.
membranoid adjective resembling or consisting of membrane M19.