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What is a membrane?

What is a membrane? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
  2. A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
  3. A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
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A semi-permeable membrane is otherwise known as a selectively permeable membrane.
For all treatments, plasma membrane cholesterol levels were quantitated by filipin staining as previously described.
The amniotic fluid and membrane cushion the fetus against bumps and jolts to the mother's body.
The dialysis membrane is permeable to all the plasma constituents, with the exception of plasma proteins.
They show a distinct so-called adventitia capillaris, a thin collagenous membrane, surrounding the endothelial tube.
Ninety percent of the channels are located in the junctional cleft membrane.

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