Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
membrane . - noun Same as
false amnion .
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Examples
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The intermediate ear displays an irregular cavity, having a membrane, called the membrana tympani, stretched across its extremity; and this cavity has a communication with the external air, through the Eustachian tube, which leads into the fauces, or throat.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 Various
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The larger follicles (Fig. 1164) consist of an external fibrovascular coat, connected with the surrounding stroma of the ovary by a net-work of bloodvessels; and an internal coat, which consists of several layers of nucleated cells, called the membrana granulosa.
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The portion of the membrane situated above the short process is known as the membrana flaccida or
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Across this passage, at its inner extremity, is stretched a thin membrane, called membrana tympani.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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Jews of old examined their maids ex tenui membrana, called Hymen, which Laurentius in his anatomy, Columbus lib.
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Al desarollo del feto, los huesos membranos se forman directamente de hojas de tejido conectivo membrana.
Al Nacer, Tenemos Como 270 huesos. como adultos tienen 206 huesos 2007
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Beneath and within this opens a recess or passage, (_meatus auditorium externus_,) at the farther end of which is the parchment-like front-door, D (_membrana tympani_).
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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Under the last head of his paper Dr. Mott proved that the membrana tympani was not necessary for good hearing, that in fact when it was punctured, a deaf man could in many cases be made to hear, and in fact it improved the hearing in general; the only reason why the tympanic membrane was not punctured oftener was that dust, heat, and cold were apt to injure the middle ear.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 Various
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The _membrana_ is wanted now for a knightly romance -- for "my Cid," or Coeur de Lion; for Sir Tristrem, or Lybæus
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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Anteriorly it is protected by the _eyelids_, and in birds by a third eyelid that corresponds to the membrana nictitans of quadrupeds.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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