Synonyms for membrane
ˈmɛm breɪnmem·brane

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1. membranenoun

   a thin pliable sheet of material

   Synonyms:
   tissue layer

2. membrane, tissue layernoun

   a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants

   Synonyms:
   tissue layer

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1. List of paraphrases for "membrane":

   membranes, membranous, liner, diaphragm, membrane-bound, transmembrane, lining

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1. membrane

   Synonyms:
   Obstetrics Membranes

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1. Megan Huylo:

   It’s going to protect our cells from any damage from free radicals that’s going to damage skin cell membrane.

2. James Cooper:

   The membrane tensioning phase of sunshield deployment is especially challenging because there are complex interactions between the structures, the tensioning mechanisms, the cables and the membranes, this was the hardest part to test on the ground, so it feels awesome to have everything go so well today.

3. Irene Zoppi:

   If that piece of membrane is placed on an unusual spot on the infant’s tongue, it may restrict the movement of the tongue.

4. Robert Bleischwitz:

   In cases where the flow is at higher risk of detaching from the surface; so your vehicle has a risk to sag down, to fall down. In that period a membrane wing can keep it afloat because the dynamics in the surface trigger vortices which roll down the wing, and these vortices produce lift. So you can use this vortex generation to produce lift. And you need the membrane to excite, generate these vortices.

5. Peter Holme Jensen:

   It is essentially the mechanism that allows water to cross the cell membrane of living cells.