cytomembrane

English

Etymology

From cyto- +‎ membrane.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛmbɹeɪn

Noun

cytomembrane (countable and uncountable, plural cytomembranes)

  1. (biology) A membrane found in cytoplasm.
    • 1975, June Stephens Chadwick, “Hemolymph Changes with Infection or Induced Immunity in Insects and Ticks”, in Karl Maramorosch, Robert E[llis] Shope, editors, Invertebrate Immunity: Mechanisms of Invertebrate Vector-Parasite Relations, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →ISBN, part III (Hemolymph Components in Invertebrate Immunity), page 251:
      The authors speculate that viral infection may modify the lipid metabolism of the host or some of the substances could be released in the blood stream of the larvae through rupture of cytomembrane.
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