Medical Dictionary

fertilization membrane

noun

Medical Definition of FERTILIZATION MEMBRANE

:  a resistant membranous layer in eggs of many animals that forms following fertilization by the thickening and separation of the vitelline membrane from the cell surface and that prevents multiple fertilization

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