| ECMO | enteric cytopathic monkey orphan [virus]; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
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| ELM | external limiting membrane; extravascular lung mass |
| EMA | electronic microanalyzer; emergency medical assistance, emergency medical assistant; endothelial mon... |
| FAMA | Fellow of the American Medical Association; fluorescent antibody to membrane antigen |
| FUR | 5-fluorouracil and radiation; fluorouracil riboside; fluorouridine; follow-up report; furin membrane... |
| membrane capacitance | The electrical capacitance of a membrane. Plasma membranes are excellent insulators and dielectrics: capacitance is the measure of the quantity of charge that must be moved across unit area of the membrane to produce unit change in membrane potential and is measured in Farads. most plasma membranes have a capacitance around 1 microfarad cmexp 2. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| membrane-coating granule | A membrane-bound granule, 100 to 500 nm in diameter, located in the upper layers of the stratum spinosum of certain stratified squamous epithelia. Synonym: lamellar granule, membrane-coating granule, Odland body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| membrane depolarisation | The process or act of neutralising polarity, depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarised condition. <physiology> The reversal of the resting potential in excitable cell membranes when stimulated i.e., the tendency of the cell membrane potential to become positive with respect to the potential outside the cell. A positive shift in a cells resting potential (that is normally negative), thus making it numerically smaller and less polarized, for example 90mV to 50mV. <optics> Depolarisation of light, a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyser reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word is inappropriate, as the ray does not return to the unpolarised condition. Origin: Cf. F. Depolarisation. (27 Oct 1998) |
| membrane dipeptidase | <enzyme> Renal dipeptidase which metabolises thienamycin and related carbapenem antibiotic Registry number: EC 3.4.13.19 Synonym: dehydropeptidase-i, dehydropeptidase I, microsomal dipeptidase (26 Jun 1999) |
| membrane enzyme | <enzyme> An enzyme present or embedded in a biomembrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| membrane expansion theory | That adsorption of anaesthetics into membranes so alters membrane volume and/or configuration that membrane function is affected in such a way as to produce anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| membrane fluidity | Biological membranes are viscous 2 dimensional fluids within their physiological temperature range. (18 Nov 1997) |
| membrane fusion | The adherence of cell membranes, intracellular membranes, or artifical membrane models of either to each other or to viruses, parasites, or interstitial particles through a variety of chemical and physical processes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| membrane glycoproteins | Glycoproteins found on the membrane or surface of cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| membrane lipids | Lipids, predominantly phospholipids, cholesterol and small amounts of glycolipids found in membranes including cellular and intracellular membranes. These lipids may be arranged in bilayers in the membranes with integral proteins between the layers and peripheral proteins attached to the outside. Membrane lipids are required for active transport, several enzymatic activities and membrane formation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| membrane of tympanum | <anatomy> The eardrum. (13 Nov 1997) |
| membrane potential | <physiology> More correctly, transmembrane potential difference: the electrical potential difference across a plasma membrane. See: resting potential, action potential. (18 Nov 1997) |
| membrane potentials | Ratio of inside versus outside concentration of potassium, sodium, chloride and other ions in diffusible tissues or cells. Also called transmembrane and resting potentials, they are measured by recording electrophysiologic responses in voltage-dependent ionic channels of (e.g.) nerve, muscle and blood cells as well as artificial membranes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| membrane protein | <protein> A protein with regions permanently attached to a membrane (peripheral membrane protein) or inserted into a membrane integral membrane protein). Insertion into a membrane implies hydrophobic domains in the protein. All transport proteins are integral membrane proteins. (18 Nov 1997) |
| membrane proteins | Proteins which are found in membranes including cellular and intracellular membranes. They consist of two types, peripheral and integral proteins. They include most membrane-associated enzymes, antigenic proteins, transport proteins, and drug, hormone, and lectin receptors. (12 Dec 1998) |