| 单词 | cellular membrane |
| 释义 | > as lemmascellular membrane cellular membrane n. [with sense (a) compare post-classical Latin membrana cellularis (1730 or earlier in an English context; apparently after English)] Biology (a) loose connective tissue (in early use esp. adipose tissue) (cf. cellular tissue n.) (now disused); (b) = cell membrane n. at cell n.1 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > connective tissue > [noun] cellular membrane1729 cellular tissue1754 areolar tissue1818 connective tissue1839 connexive tissue1854 conjunctive tissue1856–8 connective1883 1729 D. Turner Disc. conc. Gleets p. x No Part of the Body, either membranous or muscular, is destitute of this adipose or cellular Membrane. 1799 R. Southey Nondescripts iii, in Poet. Wks. (1838) III. 64 My very cellular membrane will be changed..I shall be negrofied. 1842 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 33 29 Around the cell is disposed a mass of grains, united by a transparent matter, and surrounded by a simple cellular membrane. 1876 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 8) II. 53 If we make a cut through the skin and proceed to raise it from the subjacent parts, we observe that it is loosely connected to them by a soft filamentous substance of considerable tenacity and elasticity..This is the substance known by the names of ‘cellular’, ‘areolar’, ‘filamentous’, ‘connective’, and ‘reticular’ tissue; it used formerly to be commonly called ‘cellular membrane’. 1939 A. Krogh Osmotic Regulation in Aquatic Animals 196 The isotonicity normally present between tissue cells and the surrounding medium need not mean, however, that the sum of free ions on both sides of the cellular membrane is the same. 1998 L. Margulis & K. V. Schwartz Five Kingdoms (ed. 3) iii. 214/1 Syncytia are made up of nuclei not separated by cellular membranes. < as lemmas |
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