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Example sentences for "thin membrane"

  • The formation of a thin membrane at the surface of the structureless plasma granule may be explained as a purely physical process--that of surface strain.

  • Many of them are surrounded by a thin membrane or somewhat thicker gelatinous covering, and this circumstance had prevented me for some time from counting the chromacea as monera.

  • United to these two knobs, which are formed of thick and yellowish membrane, and springing from the adjoining sides of the mandibles, there are two swellings formed of thin membrane (fig.

  • It is inclosed in a thin membrane, which separates it from the surrounding white.

  • The white of egg is composed mainly of albumen in a dissolved state, inclosed in layers of thin membrane.

  • The central portion is composed of little globules of pulp and seeds inclosed in a thin membrane, each seed being about the size of a red currant.

  • Inside, the cavities are lined with a thin membrane, called the endocardium.

  • Cartilage is a smooth, elastic substance, softer than bone, and invested with a thin membrane, called perichondrium.

  • A thin membrane composed of cells which contain fat.

  • This last species is distinguished by the receptacle being drawn out into a thin membrane-like substance, which rises between the carpels like the remains of withered leaves, and partially covers them.

  • The scales of the involucre are strongly marked, from being edged with a thin membrane, and the florets of the ray are much longer in proportion to those of the disk than in the Daisy.

  • The inner end of it is closed by the tympanum, a vertical, but not quite upright, thin membrane of an oval shape (c).

  • But at first all five toes, both of fore and hind feet, are connected by a thin membrane like a swimming-web; they remind us of the original shaping of the foot as a paddling fin.

  • A thin membrane, standing vertically in the middle plane, the mesocardium, connects the ventral wall of the head-gut with the lower head-wall.

  • A thin membrane of gold-beaters' skin tightly stretched and fastened with a cord can be seen on the end of the transmitter and of the receiver.

  • The thought of inventors at first was to make the vibrations of a thin membrane, caused by the sound of the voice, open and close a telegraphic circuit.

  • This telephone is made by stretching a thin membrane, such as thin sheepskin, or gold-beaters' skin, over a round frame of wood or metal.

  • In the dorsal part of this segment there is on each side a spot where the cuticle is only a thin membrane.

  • The lungs of the toad are composed primarily of a thin membrane, in the form of a sac, richly supplied with blood-vessels.

  • Sometimes, as in the Paramoecium, the cell is enclosed by a cell-wall which may be simply a denser outer layer of the cytoplasm, or may be a thin membrane secreted by the protoplasm.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aerial warfare; little talk; little work; orders came; thin brass; thin coating; thin muslin; thin paste; thin piece; thin plates; thin slices; thin syrup; thin voice; thine account; thine only; thing before; things indifferent; things like; things seen; things stood; things will; think seriously; think them; think will; thinks proper; thinly sliced