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ng the capacity of becoming organizable in a high degree, as the matter forming the false membranes which sometimes result from acute inflammation in a healthy person. Dunglison.

the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eustachian valve (Anat.), a crescent-shaped fold of the lining membrane of the heart at the entrance of the vena cava inferior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the fetus, but is rudimentary and functionless in the adult.

grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids thought membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; -- opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.

; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.

The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants.

d with the symptoms of membranous croup, but unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane. -- False door or window (Arch.), the representation of a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors or windows or to give symmetry. -- False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war, chiefly for signal…

A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.

Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

A small fold of membrane, connecting the labia in the posterior part of the vulva.

A connecting fold of membrane serving to support or restrain any part; as, the frænum of the tongue.

A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal. See Frilled lizard (below).

liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

luid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid in the body, but acts only on proteid foods. -- Gastric remittent fever (Med.), a form of re…

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.

and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.