Thesaurus / membranous

membranous

synonyms for membranous

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I took in the situation almost at a glance—membranous croup!

I have never examined the throat of a child dead from so-called membranous croup in which I did not find the diphtheria bacillus.

Inflammatory, obstructive, and membranous dysmenorrhoea are commonly made worse by marriage.

The ears were without hair, thin and membranous like the wings of a bat, and very open.

When conditions unfavorable for life come, the amœba, like some one-celled plants, encysts itself within a membranous wall.

A CIVIC BIOLOGYGEORGE WILLIAM HUNTER

As the leaves develop, these membranous wrappings curl back, and finally wither and fall.

Characterized by having four membranous wings with comparatively few veins, the hind part smallest.

At the moment of this change the envelope is nearly as soft and membranous as in the order first mentioned.

Lateral and often membranous processes observable on each side of the tongue in some Hymenoptera, &c.

The upper organs of flight, when they are corneous or coriaceous at the base and membranous at the apex.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985