0 a thin piece of skin that covers or connects parts of a person's or animal's body:
1 a thin, soft layer of tissue that covers organs or connects parts of living things, or the outer covering of a cell
In addition, it is commonly thought that endocytosis is a process leading to degradation, while fertilization occurs through the fusion of membranes.
Throughout the length of the bar the two plasma membranes are closely apposed, separated by a translucent space.
Major expenses are medical supplies and drugs (53 percent) with hemodialysis membranes as the major cost-driver.
Laminated membranes (lm) are present in the thin cytoplasmic lining of the parental uterus.
The tegument, lacking lateral membranes, is a syncytium surrounding the entire parasite.
The system is predominantly located in the mitochondrial membranes, with very little activity detectable in the soluble fraction of the organelle.
Since these vesicles are associated with the inner and the outer plasma membranes of syncytium, they are likely to be involved in endo- or exocytosis.
Premature rupture of the membranes occurred at 30.6 weeks of gestation and an emergency cesarian section was performed.
