Membrane vs Epithelium - What's the difference?
membrane | epithelium |
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.
(anatomy) A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 25:
As nouns the difference between membrane and epithelium
is that membrane is membrane while epithelium is epithelium.membrane
English
(wikipedia membrane)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* neomembraneepithelium
English
(wikipedia epithelium)Noun
(en-noun)- the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly, thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium .