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What is a membrane? |
A thin, flexible sheet of tissue composed of an epithelial layer and an underlying connective tissue layer, as in an epithelial membrane, or of areolar connective tissue only, as in a synovial membrane. |
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What is a mucus membrane? |
A membrane that lines a body cavity that opens to the exterior. Also called the mucosa.
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What is an epithelial membrane? |
An epithelial membrane is a membrane that consists of an epithelial layer and an underlying layer of connective tissue. |
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What is lamina propria? |
The connective tissue layer of a mucosa. |
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What is a serous membrane? |
A membrane that lines a body cavity that does not open to the exterior. The external layer of an organ formed by a serous membrane. The membrane that lines the pleural, pericardial, and peritoneal cavities. Also called a serosa.
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What is the pleura? |
The serous membrane that covers the lungs and lines the walls of the chest and the diaphragm. |
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What is the pericardium? |
A loose-fitting membrane that encloses the heart, consisting of a superficial fibrous layer and a deep serous layer. |
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What is the peritoneum? |
The largest serous membrane of the body that lines the abdominal cavity and covers the viscera within it. |
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What is the synovial membrane? |
The deeper of the two layers of the articular capsule of a synovial joint, composed of areolar connective tissue that secretes synovial fluid into the synovial (joint) cavity. |
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What is synovial fluid. |
Secretion of synovial membranes that lubricates joints and nourishes articular cartilage. |
