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Webster 1913 Edition


Hymenogeny

Hyˊme-nog′e-ny

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] a membrane + root of
γίγνεσθαι
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.