Membrane vs Amniotomy - What's the difference?
membrane | amniotomy |
A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal).
A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.
A flexible or semi-flexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.
(medicine) An artificial rupture of membranes to induce or accelerate labour.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 30, author=Nicholas Bakalar, title=Childbirth: Purposely Breaking Water Does Not Speed Delivery, work=New York Times
, passage=The procedure, sometimes called amniotomy , involves rupturing the amniotic membranes to speed contractions. }}
As nouns the difference between membrane and amniotomy
is that membrane is a flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments (usually in a plant or animal) while amniotomy is an artificial rupture of membranes to induce or accelerate labour.membrane
English
(wikipedia membrane)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* neomembraneamniotomy
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(wikipedia amniotomy)Noun
(amniotomies)citation