Meanings
nounUssing chamber (plural Ussing chambers)
plural Ussing chambers
- An apparatus for measuring the properties of epithelial membrane.
Origin
It was invented in 1946 by the Danish zoologist and physiologist Hans Henriksen Ussing.
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