serous membrane

English

Noun

serous membrane (plural serous membranes)

1. (anatomy) A thin membrane that secretes serum lining an internal body cavity, such as the peritoneum, the pericardium, and the pleura.

Synonyms

• serosa
• serous tunic

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:serous membrane

Translations

thin membrane that secretes serum in body cavity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漿膜／浆膜 (zh) (jiāngmó), 浆膜 (zh) (jiāngmó), 漿模／浆模, 浆模 (jiāngmó)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: herakalvo, seroosa
• French: membrane séreuse f, séreuse (fr) f
• German: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: savós hártya
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 漿膜 (しょうまく, shōmaku)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: membrană seroasă (ro) f
• Russian: серо́зная оболо́чка f (seróznaja obolóčka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: serosa (sv) c

See also

• mucous membrane