endosmosis

[ en-doz-moh-sis, -dos- ]

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noun

Biology. osmosis toward the inside of a cell or vessel.
Physical Chemistry. the flow of a substance from an area of lesser concentration to one of greater concentration ( exosmosis ).

endosmosis

/ ˌɛndɒsˈmɒtɪk; ˌɛndɒsˈməʊsɪs; -dɒz-; -dɒz- /

biology osmosis in which water enters a cell or organism from the surrounding solution Compare exosmosis

1830–40; Latinization of now obsolete endosmose < French; end-, osmosis

This passage is performed by a process to which the names of Absorption and Endosmosis have been applied.

What effect on the process of endosmosis can be exerted by Castor or Croton oils, or by calcined Magnesia?

Poisseuille some time ago asserted that a solution of Morphia prevented the process of endosmosis through a dead animal membrane.

A separation into a privileged and a subject-class prevents social endosmosis.

If this were otherwise, the valency rule would hardly operate so well in endosmosis, kataphoresis, and precipitation.

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