noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mucous membrane
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mucous
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Direct contact is most likely to lead to infection of the skin, conjunctiva or mucous membrane .
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Chemical warfare directly into mucous membranes is just part of what activists face in Humboldt.
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I opened my mouth and felt the scalds on the mucous membrane inside my throat.
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There may be a generalized rash, widespread lymphadenopathy, and mucous membrane lesions.
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It is also important to check the mucous membranes and lips for signs of cyanosis.
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Rough lips; they crack and peel, crusty at the margins of the mucous membranes or on the ears.
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Swollen mucous membranes , red and enlarged blood vessels; inflammation of all the tissues of the eye.
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Ulcers of mucous membranes can be deep as if punched out.
nuclear
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The nuclear membrane has broken down and the condensed chromosomes lie bunched together in the cytoplasm.
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When the nuclear membrane re-forms around them and the licensing factors trapped inside, so what?
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In this stage the nuclear membrane breaks down and disappears from view.
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The nuclear membrane will not be re-formed until chromosome division is complete.
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Their nuclear membranes remain intact; they just continue as before.
outer
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Within the epidermal cells microtubules connect the desmosomes of the interdigitating regions with cone-like depressions of the outer epidermal plasma membrane .
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The touch of the sperm on the oocyte's outer membrane stimulates the second meiosis to move to completion.
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It merely registers the disruption of its outer membrane that such entry causes.
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One great improvement involved the outer membrane of the cell.
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The nucleus thus formed divides and two cells develop within the outer membrane .
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Others acquired a harder outer membrane to later become skin-like materials.
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As the cells increase in number the outer membrane disappears.
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People with sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia are known to have red cells with defects in their outer membranes .
synaptic
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Arriving at the post synaptic membrane , it causes a change in its permeability so that a new action potential begins.
■ NOUN
basement
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Pinocytic vesicles were present near the plasma membrane and basement membrane was present around these cells.
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Angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors may act in reducing glomerular basement membrane pore size.
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Most significantly, an interesting similarity to the human basement membrane heparan sulphate proteoglycan core protein was detected.
cell
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Under resting conditions the cell membrane will not allow ions to diffuse passively across it, so the potential difference remains.
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With one rare exception, all such cell membranes permit translocation in only one direction.
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Thus a field can influence another field and nothing is transferred into or out through the cell membrane .
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Because it also dissolves in fats, it freely passes through cell membranes , which are basically double-walled bubbles of fat.
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They serve as essential components of cell membranes .
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The neurotransmitter sticks to the receptor molecule, and together they are able to open a pore in the cell membrane .
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Cholesterol is present in all animal cell membranes and in the blood.
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Only particles that can not cross cell membranes obligate net water flow across such membranes.
nylon
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Samples were electrophoresed on 0.8% agarose gels and the size fractionated products transferred to nylon membranes using standard procedures.
plasma
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It ought to help you locate our protein in cellular plasma membranes .
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Within the epidermal cells microtubules connect the desmosomes of the interdigitating regions with cone-like depressions of the outer epidermal plasma membrane .
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The distributional asymmetries of phospholipids in the plasma membrane of erythrocytes and platelets are shown in Fig. 2.
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Firstly, by studying radiolabelled ion uptake into isolated plasma membrane vesicles.
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Carbachol, gastrin, and histamine all bind to specific receptors on parietal cell plasma membranes .
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The plasma membrane is also thought to be far less rigid a structure than originally proposed.
potential
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Thus, if the second-messenger network were to enter a domain of chaotic behavior, chaotic variation in membrane potential would result.
protein
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The acyl substituents of phospholipids provide the hydrophobic environment that is necessary for the function of intrinsic membrane proteins .
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The cancer problem and cell membrane proteins were only the latest triumph.
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The thermodynamic constraints against their transverse diffusion across the bilayer are less that those of membrane proteins .
vesicle
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Firstly, by studying radiolabelled ion uptake into isolated plasma membrane vesicles .
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More recent investigations with rat jejunal brush border membrane vesicles , however, have found evidence only for passive transport.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The injury caused bleeding beneath the membrane of the brain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Chloroplast membranes are very susceptible to attack by oxygen radicals which are generated as a by-product of photochemistry.
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He had been born with the caul, the inner fetal membrane had covered his head at birth.
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In this image the state in liberal democracies is separated from its society by only a thin membrane of formal legality.
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The sodium is only able to pass into the membrane through sodium ion channels distributed along the axon.
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These flat roofing materials fall into three major categories: built-up felt roofing, mastic asphalt and single-ply membranes.
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With one rare exception, all such cell membranes permit translocation in only one direction.
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Years later, I would think of their sheen as being rather like the membranes enclosing viruses I had read about.