membrous

He was I don't know just how old, but not when he was first born, because I've heard her talk so much about children having croup, you know, and he died with what they called the membrous croup.

Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

He had what they called the membrous croup, and there was nothing much that you could do for that then.

Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, October 13, 1976. Interview H-0085-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

She treated her own, [unknown] but that was one thing that she was afraid of, was the croup, because, you see, she lost her first baby with that membrous croup.

Oral History Interview with Louise Riggsbee Jones, September 20, 1976. Interview H-0085-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

But now, because it is soft and semi-fluid, it does not devaricate the walls of the groove communicating with the manyplies, and so, continuing on along its tubular interior, it finds its way direct into the third stomach, most of it filtering between the membrous laminae on its way to the fourth stomach, where it becomes acted on by the gastric juice.

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870