The word "membrane" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a thin layer of material that is either a physical barrier or serves as a selective permeable barrier. For example, "The cell's membrane is selectively permeable, allowing certain materials to pass through it while blocking others."
The specialist care team there recommended she received a procedure called extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
Instead – and with the exception of the nicely upfront bowling coach David Saker – there seems to be some kind of invisible protective membrane at managerial level, an ingrained slipperiness.
Open it out flat and pull away any left-over intestines and membrane.
Use the end of a spoon to flick out the seeds and membrane.
Some bacteria have evolved to pump out the drugs that infiltrate their walls; other, "Gram-negative" bugs have an impenetrable outer membrane.
Intel says that it can keep the law going for at least another ten years, eventually slimming its transistors down to 5nm, about the thickness of a cell membrane.
This is 1.2 nanometres across, a diameter that permits the passage of water more easily than a polymer membrane does, but is still small enough to hold back hydrated chloride ions.
Almost a third of these are embedded in the cell's outer membrane.
The crucial insight Dr Abrams and Dr Chaiken had was that this membrane probably acts like a balloon in other words the pressure inside it is greater than the pressure outside it.
Now, however, Darryl Bornhop at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and his colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, have come up with a simple, low-cost way of studying membrane proteins unmodified and in situ using a laser.
Third, pores punched in this way are straight, rather than being convoluted channels as is the case in a polymer membrane.
