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membranous, a.|ˈmɛmbrənəs|
[ad. F. membraneux (16th c.), f. membrane membrane.]
Consisting of, resembling, or of the nature of membrane; membranaceous. In Bot., thin and more or less translucent.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 48/1 Certayne membranouse pellicles intermixed with the excrementes. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xx. 155 Two black filaments or membranous strings which extend into the long and shorter cornicle upon protrusion. 1756Burke Subl. & B. iv. xi, The ear drum and the other membranous parts. 1765F. Home Croup 28 The mucus..was formed into a membranous crust. 1811Lettsom in Pettigrew Mem. Life & Writ. (1817) III. 5 This [croupy] exudation consists of a membranous substance. 1832Lindley Introd. Bot. 86 These [modifications] arise either from the addition of parenchyma, when leaves become succulent, or from the non-development of it, when they become membranous. 1867J. Marshall Outl. Physiol. I. 505 The essential parts of the organ of hearing, viz., the membranous labyrinth and the cochlea. 1875Buckland Log-bk. 149 The stomach of the bittern is a membranous bag.
b. Of diseases: Pertaining to or involving the formation of a membrane (see membrane 1 d).
1875tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. X. 334 Membranous dysmenorrhœa. 1876J. S. Bristowe Theory & Pract. Med. (1878) 209 Although membranous croup occurs in adults, it is mainly children who suffer. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 943 Dyspeptic membranous colitis.
Hence ˈmembranously adv., like membranes.
1750G. Hughes Barbadoes 293 The leaves..somewhat resemble those of a small curled lettuce, but are far more membranously thin. |