membrane

See also: Membrane

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin membrāna (“skin of body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmembɹeɪn/

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Noun

membrane (plural membranes)

1. A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
2. A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
3. A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.

Derived terms

• aperture membrane
• basement membrane
• biomembrane
• cell membrane
• complement membrane attack complex
• cyclitic membrane
• cytomembrane
• Descemet's membrane
• endomembrane
• exomembrane
• extramembrane
• geomembrane
• haptogenic membrane
• hemimembrane
• hyaline membrane disease
• hyaloid membrane
• insane in the membrane
• integral membrane protein
• intermembrane
• intramembrane
• ion-selective membrane
• Jacob's membrane
• juxtamembrane
• membrane distillation
• membraneless
• membranelike
• membrane mimetic chemistry
• membraneous
• membrane potential
• membrane protein
• membrane separation
• monomembrane
• mucous membrane
• multimembrane
• mycomembrane
• nanomembrane
• neomembrane
• neuromembrane
• nictating membrane
• nictitating membrane
• nonmembrane
• nuclear membrane
• peripheral membrane protein
• plasma membrane
• premembrane
• protected membrane roof
• pseudomembrane
• Reissner's membrane
• ruptured membrane
• Schneiderian membrane
• serous membrane
• single-ply membrane
• submembrane
• supermembrane
• supramembrane
• synovial membrane
• tectorial membrane
• transmembrane
• tympanic membrane
• virginal membrane
• Zinn's membrane

 

Translations

enclosing or separating tissue

• Arabic: غِشَاء m (ḡišāʔ)
• Armenian: թաղանթ (hy) (tʻaġantʻ)
• Asturian: membrana f
• Catalan: membrana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膜 (zh) (mó), 薄膜 (zh) (bómó)

• Czech: membrána f, blána f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: membraan (nl) n
• Esperanto: membrano
• Finnish: kalvo (fi)
• French: membrane (fr) f
• Galician: membrana (gl) 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)

• Icelandic: himna (is)
• Irish: scannán m
• Italian: membrana (it) f, pergamena (it) f
• Japanese: 膜 (ja) (まく, maku)
• Khmer: ភ្នាស (km) (pneas)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: membrāna f
• Malay: kulipis
• Maori: rīrapa, tewe, kiriuhi
• Mongolian: хальс (mn) (xalʹs)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: membran m, hinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: membran m, hinne f

• Polish: błona (pl) f
• Portuguese: membrana (pt) f
• Romanian: membrană (ro) f, membrane f pl
• Russian: мембра́на (ru) f (membrána), перепо́нка (ru) f (perepónka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опна f, мембрана f

  Roman: opna (sh) f, membrana (sh) f

• Spanish: membrana (es) f
• Swedish: membran (sv), hinna (sv)
• Tagalog: lamad, bamban
• Thai: เยื่อ (th) (yʉ̂ʉa), เนื้อเยื่อ (th) (nʉ́ʉa-yʉ̂ʉa)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

mechanical part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force

• Armenian: թաղանթ (hy) (tʻaġantʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薄膜 (zh) (bómó)

• Czech: membrána f, blána 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)
• Italian: membrana (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: membran m, hinne (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: membran m, hinne f

• Portuguese: membrana (pt) f
• Russian: мембра́на (ru) f (membrána)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опна f, мембрана f

  Roman: opna (sh) f, membrana (sh) f

• Swedish: membran (sv), hinna (sv)

flexible covering whose primary function is to exclude water

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薄膜 (zh) (bómó)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kermi

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin membrāna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.bʁan/

Noun

membrane f (plural membranes)

1. membrane

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

membrane f pl

1. plural of membrana

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /memˈbra.ne/

Noun

membrane

1. plural of membrană