pellicle
/ˈpɛlɪk(ə)l
/noun technical
A thin skin, cuticle, membrane, or film.Young papillae are covered with a pellicle - cuticle layer and contain starch grains....
- However, in the dry type, the pellicle and cuticle remain intact in the functional phase, whereas they become discontinuous in the wet type.
- Proline-rich proteins' coat the teeth with a thin layer - pellicle - that serves as a protective diffusion barrier on the tooth surface.
Derivatives
pellicular
/ adjective ...- A pellicular coated support and method for producing such a support are disclosed.
- A semi-suspension polymerization process was used in this work in order to prepare ion exchange pellicular resins.
Origin
Late Middle English: from French pellicule, from Latin pellicula 'small piece of skin', diminutive of pellis.
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