cell membrane

English

Noun

cell membrane (plural cell membranes)

1. (cytology) The semipermeable membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell.

Synonyms

• (semipermeable membrane): plasma membrane, cytoplasmic membrane, cytolemma (dated), plasmalemma (dated)

Related terms

• nuclear membrane

Translations

semipermeable membrane surrounding the cytoplasm of a cell

• Afrikaans: selmembraan
• Arabic: الغشاء البلازمي
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 細胞膜／细胞膜 (zh) (xìbāomó)

• Danish: cellemembran c
• Dutch: celmembraan (nl), plasmamembraan n
• Finnish: solukalvo (fi)
• French: membrane plasmique (fr) f
• Galician: membrana celular f, membrana plasmática f
• German: Zellmembran (de) f
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: sejtmembrán (hu), sejthártya (hu)
• Irish: cillscannán f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: parzûna xaneyê f

• Maori: kiriuhi pūtau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: cellemembran (no) m

  Nynorsk: cellemembran m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: błona komórkowa f
• Portuguese: membrana celular f, membrana plasmática f, membrana citoplasmática f
• Russian: кле́точная мембра́на f (klétočnaja membrána)
• Spanish: membrana celular (es) f
• Swedish: cellmembran (sv) n, plasmamembran (sv)
• Tagalog: lamad ng sihay, lamad ng kaphay
• Thai: เยื่อหุ้มเซลล์
• Ukrainian: кліти́нна мембра́на f (klitýnna membrána)
• Vietnamese: màng tế bào, màng sinh chất
• Welsh: cellbilen (cy) f

See also

• extracellular matrix