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transmembrane

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English

Syllables
trans-mem-brane
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Traversing a cellular membrane.

adj

Of or pertaining to a transmembrane protein or segment.

noun

a transmembrane protein, or the transmembrane portion of a protein

Etymology

From trans- + membrane.

Inflected Forms

transmembranes (plural)

Derived Forms

transmembranous

Phrases

transmembrane distillation transmembrane protein

Rhymes With

membrane geomembrane intermembrane supramembrane biomembrane endomembrane intramembrane pseudomembrane cytomembrane neuromembrane micromembrane neomembrane

Questions

What does transmembrane mean?
Traversing a cellular membrane.
Where does transmembrane come from?
From trans- + membrane.

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