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Definition of Osmoregulatory
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Osmoregulatory
1. Influencing the degree and rapidity of osmosis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osmoregulatory
Literary usage of Osmoregulatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"... might serve as mechanoreceptors, baroreceptors or osmoreceptors, as well as
in yeast and bacteria, where osmoregulatory functions have been suggested. ..."
2. Effects of the Eruptions of Mount St. Helens on Physical, Chemical, and by Douglas B. Lee (1998)
"... their experimental bioassays, to blockage of osmoregulatory surfaces by ash
and mucus. The authors also performed autopsies on the salmonid fish that ..."
3. Information Resources for Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish, and Cephalopods Used by D'Anna J. Berry (1994)
"289 Adrenergic responses to stress in fish (mortality, osmoregulatory disturbances).
Mazeaud, MM and Mazeaud, F. Stress and Fish Academic Press, London, ..."
4. Warmwater Fisheries: Symposium I (1991) edited by James L. Cooper, R. H. Hamre (1999)
"... hooking mortality should be less than 9.5X in the summer and under 5.OX overall,
95X of the time. Because stress-induced osmoregulatory imbalances in ..."
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