serous membrane

English

Noun

serous membrane (plural serous membranes)

1. (anatomy) A thin membrane that secretes serum and lines certain internal body cavities.

   Synonyms: serosa, serous tunic, tunica serosa

   Hypernyms: membrane, tissue; < structure

   Hyponyms: peritoneum, endocardium, pericardium, pleura

   Coordinate terms: mucous membrane, mucosa

Translations

thin membrane that secretes serum in body cavity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 漿膜／浆膜 (zh) (jiāngmó), 漿模／浆模 (jiāngmó)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: serozo
• Finnish: herakalvo, seroosa
• French: membrane séreuse f, séreuse (fr) f
• Georgian: სეროზული გარსი (serozuli garsi)
• German: Tunica serosa f, Serosa f
• Hungarian: savós hártya
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• Japanese: 漿膜 (しょうまく, shōmaku)
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• Romanian: membrană seroasă (ro) f
• Russian: серо́зная оболо́чка f (seróznaja obolóčka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: serosa (sv) c, serös hinna c