endosmotic

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At all events, the endosmotic or exosmotic action of the skin of a living body must necessarily play an important role in the absorption of medicinal agents; and, on the other hand, it is plain that fats, which render the living skin impermeable, necessarily also diminish or entirely neutralize its osmotic action.

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  1. Of or pertaining to endosmosis; of the nature of endosmosis. Also endosmic. Root-pressure is probably a purely physical phenomenon, due to a kind of endosmotic action taking place in the root-cells. Bessey, Botany, p. 174. Endosmose is independent of any interchange, since it results entirely from the attraction of the dissolving substance for the solvent; and this attraction is invariable at the same temperature, and may be termed endosmotic force. Sachs, Botany (trans.), p. 597.
  2. Endosmotic equivalent the number expressing the ratio of the amount by weight of water which passes through a porous membrane into a saline solution to that of the amount of salt passing in the opposite direction.

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  • At all events, the endosmotic or exosmotic action of the skin of a living body must necessarily play an important role in the absorption of medicinal agents; and, on the other hand, it is plain that fats, which render the living skin impermeable, necessarily also diminish or entirely neutralize its osmotic action. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
  • It is done by what in physics is known as _endosmotic_ and _exosmotic_ action. —  A Practical Physiology
  • At all events, the endosmotic or exosmotic action of the skin of a living body must necessarily play an important _role_ in the absorption of medicinal agents; and, on the other hand, it is plain that fats, which render the living skin impermeable, necessarily also diminish or entirely neutralize its osmotic action. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
  • But as soon as the cement-ducts penetrated into the body-cavity of the host and were bathed by its fluids, an endosmotic interchange must necessarily have been set up between the materials dissolved in these fluids and in the contents of the cement-ducts, and this interchange could not be without influence upon the nourishment of the parasite. —  Facts and Arguments for Darwin
 

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