Usually means: Selective barriers facilitating molecular transport.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. membranes: Merriam-Webster
  2. membranes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. membranes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Membranes, membranes: Wordnik
  5. membranes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. membranes: Wiktionary
  7. membranes: Dictionary.com
  8. membranes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Membranes (band), Membranes, The Membranes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Membranes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Membranes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. membranes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. membranes: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (membranes)

▸ noun:  (medicine, informal, specifically) The amniotic sac.

Similar:
tissue layer, biomembrane, vesicle, phospholipid, semipermeable, membrance, membraneous, membranous, bilayer, microfilament, more...

Opposite:
permeable, solid, impermeable, open, continuous

Phrases:
mucous membranes, cell membranes, plasma membranes, basement membranes, Fetal membranes, more...

Adjectives:
mucous, biological, serous, fetal, cellular, mitochondrial, outer, nuclear, thin, false, oral



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Similar:
tissue layer, biomembrane, vesicle, phospholipid, semipermeable, membrance, membraneous, membranous, bilayer, microfilament, more...

Opposite:
permeable, solid, impermeable, open, continuous

Phrases:
mucous membranes, cell membranes, plasma membranes, basement membranes, Fetal membranes, thylakoid membranes, nuclear membranes, serous membranes, semipermeable membranes, intracellular membranes, more...

Adjectives:
mucous, biological, serous, fetal, cellular, mitochondrial, outer, nuclear, thin, false, oral



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