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st, which is formed later and lies between these two, is sometimes included. -- Germinal membrane. (Biol.) Same as Blastoderm. -- Germinal spot (Biol.), the nucleolus of the ovum. -- Germinal vesicle, (Biol.) , the nucleus of the ovum of animals.

A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Hoblyn.

e occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- Gold beetle (Zoöl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family Chrysomelidæ; -- called also golden beetle…

on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

The expectoration of blood, due usually to hemorrhage from the mucous membrane of the lungs.

rding to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by a hormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.

A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.

The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.

Pertaining to or connecting the tongue and hyodean arch; as, the hyoglossal membrane.

kinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. -- Virtual image (Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens, which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell.…

To inclose completely, as in a membrane.

men of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular.

Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.

Between the sternal; -- said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.

The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.

A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in .

A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.