osmo-
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a combining form representing osmosis, in compound words:
osmoregulation.
Related Words
- osmometer
- osmometry
- osmoregulation
osmo-
combining form
- representing
OSMOSIS 表示“渗透”。
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Osmology.
1889 Univ. Rev. Mar. 364Literature is much more than osmology, and the world contains something beyond and above its social sewers.
1899 Q. Rev. July 90A treatise..on ‘monumental physiology, archaeological symbolism, mystical osmology’, for the author sees hidden meanings in smells.
1961 in Webster, Osmophilic.
1961 Lancet 16 Sept. 656/1 The appearance of osmophilic densities in the zones of lamellar discontinuity at the nodes of Ranvier.
1972 Jrnl. ElectronMicrosc. XXI. 85/1In order to check the nature of the osmophilic granules..in enlarged axons, the distribution, origin and properties in the area postrema were studied in a morphological comparison..with neuro⁓secretory granules in the hypothalamus.
1854 Graham in Phil. Trans. CXLIV. 181The quantity of salt diffused from the osmometer in the water-jar during the experiment was also observed.
1855 Miller Elem. Chem. I. 72This instrument generally used by this gentleman in his experiments, and called by him the osmometer. [ Prof. Graham]
1885 G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 224An osmometer..consists of a small reservoir furnished with a membrane bottom, and a graduated tube at its upper part.
1903 M. H. Fischer tr. Cohen's PhysicalChem. ix. 139Pfeffer measured the osmotic pressure of sugar solutions of various concentrations with a mercury manometer, and obtained with such an osmometer the following results.
1974 Tombs & Peacocke Osmotic PressureBiol. Macromolecules iii. 86Claesson and Jacobsson..have made an osmometer with a very precise optical method for determining the difference in height of two menisci.
1976 Nature 12 Aug. 578/1 The total osmolality of the fluid was obtained with a Clifton nanolitre osmometer.
1913 Chem. Abstr. IV. 298In a series of expts. in an ‘osmometric vessel’..the following mol. wts. are obtained by balancing the pressure of the salt against a sugar soln. on the other side of the membrane.
1964 J. Eliassaf tr. Rafikov's Determination Molecular Weights vi. 169The osmometric measurement of molecular weight is based on the fact that the osmotic pressure..is proportional to the number..of gram-molecules of dissolved material in a definite volume of solution.
1943 Jrnl. PhysicalChem. XLVII. 69The molecular weight of a carefully fractionated sample determined osmometrically checks the value obtained for the same polymer by means of the ultracentrifuge.
1964 J. Eliassaf tr. Rafikov's Determination Molecular Weights vi. 223It was found that for molecular weights of less than 75,000 a difference begins to appear between the molecular weight determined osmometrically and the molecular weight computed by the Mark-Houwink equation.
1913 Chem. Abstr. VII. 297 (heading)Osmometry of saline solutions and the theory of Arrhenius.
1973 Nature 27 Apr. p. xv ( Advt. ),It also shows how osmometry, ultracentrifugation, light scattering,..and gel filtration are used to analyze polydisperse systems.
1961 P. L. Carpenter Microbiol. xiii. 201/1Microorganisms that have become adapted to high osmotic pressure are called osmophiles.
1969 L. do Carmo-Sousa in Rose & Harrison Yeasts I. iii. 88She also suggested the possibility of finding obligate osmophiles..in Antarctic soils which have a high content of soluble salts.
1920 F. W. Tanner tr. A. Guilliermond's Yeasts iv. 120The maximum concentration for spore formation in a yeast depends upon the species. For an osmophilic species like Zygosaccharomyces Mandshuricus the concentration is high.
1960 L. E. Hawker et al.Introd. Biol. Micro-Organisms xvi. 380Sugar concentrations of 50 to 70 per cent effectively prevent the growth of most micro-organisms... A few osmophilic yeasts and bacteria may grow slowly.
1972 Sci. Amer. Apr. 95/2Because of the high osmotic pressure of honey, they are yeasts of the type called osmophilic, meaning that they live or thrive in a medium that has a high osmotic pressure.
1946 E. B. Verney in Lancet 30 Nov. 782/1The osmoreceptors, wherever they may be, do not accommodate during short-period exposure to a rise in the osmotic pressure of the carotid plasma produced by NaCl.
1947 ― in Proc. R.Soc. B. CXXXV. 68It becomes justified, therefore, to introduce the term ‘osmoreceptors’ as descriptive of the autonomic receptive elements with which the neurohypophysis is functionally linked, and through whose activation the pituitary anti⁓diuretic substance is released.
1970 A. J. Vander et al. HumanPhysiol. xii. 354/2Receptors must exist which are sensitive to extracellular osmolarity. These osmoreceptors are located in the hypothalamus.
1973 Nature 14 Dec. 383/1 The osmoreceptors which control the salt glands in marine birds are located in or near the heart.
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ORIGIN: Greek osmo- combining form of osmē smell, odour: see -o- .
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ORIGIN: from osmo(sis .
osmo-
I.combining form
Etymology: osmose (I)
: osmosis : osmotic
< osmometer >
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< osmometer >
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