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Definition of Osmotic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to osmosis. "Osmotic pressure"

Definition of Osmotic

1. a. Pertaining to, or having the property of, osmose; as, osmotic force.

Definition of Osmotic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to osmosis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Osmotic

1. pertaining to osmosis [adj] - See also: osmosis

Medical Definition of Osmotic

1. Pertaining to or of the nature of osmosis (= the passage of pure solvent from a solution of lesser to one of greater solute concentration when the two solutions are separated by a membrane which selectively prevents the passage of solute molecules, but is permeable to the solvent). This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Osmotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"On the assumption that a molecule in solution exerts an osmotic pressure that is exactly equal to the gas-pressure exerted by a gas molecule moving in the ..."

2. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"osmotic PRESSURE OF COLLOIDS The osmotic pressure of a solution is found to be, ... The measurement of osmotic pressure is thus the most valuable means of ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"The osmotic values here dealt with have been calculated according to the newer ... osmotic pressure in Spirogyra cells It was desired first to ascertain an ..."

4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"SOME CRYOSCOPIC AND osmotic DATA.1 WALTER E. CARREY. Subsequent to the publication in 1905 of data on "The osmotic Pressure of Sea Waterand the Blood of ..."

5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"This equilibrium pressure is called the osmotic pressure of the solution, ... Van Ч Hoff pointed out that measurements of osmotic pressure confirmed this ..."

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