Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A false membrane. See
membrane .
Etymologies
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From pseudo- + membrane.
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The pseudomembrane sometimes present in influenzal tracheobronchitis is thinner and less pulpy than that of the earlier stages of diphtheria.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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