Definition of Exosmotic

1. a. Pertaining to exosmose.

Definition of Exosmotic

1. Adjective. Relating to exosmosis. ¹

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Definition of Exosmotic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exosmotic

exornations
exorphin
exorphine
exorphines
exorphins
exoscopy
exoserosis
exoskeletal
exoskeletally
exoskeleton
exoskeletons
exosmic
exosmose
exosmoses
exosmosis
exosmotic (current term)
exosolar planet
exosolar planets
exosome
exosome complex
exosomes
exosphere
exospheres
exospheric
exospore
exospores
exosporia
exosporium
exossation
exosseous

Literary usage of Exosmotic

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

1. Diseases of the stomach and intestines: A Manual of Clinical Therapeutics by Dujardin-Beaumetz (1886)
"... of Zinc—An-exosmotic Substances—Opium — Morphine—Association of these Different Substances—Lavements of Ipecac—The Diarrhoea of Children—Cholera ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"This is illustrated by the exosmotic abstraction of water from the blood ... But the plasma of the blood becoming inspissated by the exosmotic action of the ..."

3. A Text-book of human physiology: Designed for the Use of Practitioners and by Austin Flint (1881)
"This nomenclature, however, is not strictly accurate ; for, if the position of the liquids bo reversed, the stronger current is exosmotic and the feebler is ..."

4. The Physiology of Man by Austin Flint (1875)
"... that while albumen attracts liquids powerfully, it is not exosmotic." The important applications of this fact to vascular absorption are evident. ..."

5. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"... by which the cell is fed ; the darts ¡I, h, the exosmotic or outgoing currents, »hereby the cell rids itself of waste products and injurious ..."

6. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1860)
"... exosmotic action could be influencing its movements. Again, if we refer to the experiment made by the author of the ' Synopsis,' to test the presence or ..."

7. Synopsis of the course of lectures on materia medica and pharmacy: Delivered by Joseph Carson (1863)
"... and a weaker out-going current, the exosmotic. It has been shown by Liebig that saline, and inferentially other matters, do not simply pass through ..."

8. Principles of human physiology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1876)
"... the water without becomes impregnated with a portion of the salt from the establishment of a counter current, hitherto termed the exosmotic current, ..."

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