Sentence examples for membrane that allows from inspiring English sources

Chronic infection of the middle ear occurs when there is a permanent perforation of the tympanic membrane that allows dust, water, and germs from the outer air to gain access to the middle-ear cavity.

The wall of the capillary is extremely thin and acts as a semipermeable membrane that allows substances containing small molecules, such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, fatty acids, glucose, and ketones, to pass through the membrane.

Osmosis gives rise to what is known as osmotic pressure, as illustrated in Figure 4, which shows a container at uniform temperature divided into two parts by a semipermeable membrane that allows only molecules of component A to pass from the left to the right side; the selective membrane does not allow molecules of component B to pass.

Many desalination plants remove salt by forcing seawater against a membrane that allows fresh water through, but not salt ions.

The scientists have developed a membrane that allows fuel cells to operate at low humidity and theoretically at higher temperatures.

We used glass microfluidics containing a thin polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membrane that allows very fast removal of acetone from water.

When an impulse passes along a nerve, there are transient changes in the properties of the membrane that allow small electrical currents to flow.

cAMP gates channels in the ciliary membrane that allow a depolarizing influx of cations, including Ca2+.

The POC-Chamber-System was gassed with 40% O2, 5% CO2, 55% N2, with the incubation chamber being sealed with a semi-permeable membrane that allowed gas exchange while preventing evaporation.

This substance makes minute holes in the membrane that allow the passage of small monovalent ions, thus leaving the cytosolic composition intact.

The general method of calculating mass transfer resistances in porous membranes that allows for the effect of hindered diffusion in the membrane pores has been proposed.