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Word Meanings - INTERMEMBRANOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

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  • MEMBRANE
    A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids. Note: The term is also often applied to the thin, expanded parts, of
  • MEMBRANEOUS
    See MEMBRANOUS
  • INTERMEMBRANOUS
    Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.
  • WITHINSIDE
    In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
  • OSSIFICATION
    The formation of bone; the process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis. Note: Besides the natural ossification of growing tissue, there is the so-called
  • WITHIN
    with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
  • BENEATH
    1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
  • WITHINFORTH
    Within; inside; inwardly. Wyclif. labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.
  • FLOSSIFICATION
    A flowering; florification. Craig.
  • GROSSIFICATION
    The swelling of the ovary of plants after fertilization. Henslow. (more info) 1. The act of making gross or thick, or the state of becoming so.
  • REISSNER'S MEMBRANE
    The thin membrane which separates the canal of the cochlea from the vestibular scala in the internal ear.

 

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