Hymenogeny

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:15:24

Hy`me*nog"e*ny (?), n. [Gr. a membrane + root of to be born.]

The production of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.

 

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