endosmosis
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Biology. osmosis toward the inside of a cell or vessel.
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Physical Chemistry. the flow of a substance from an area of lesser concentration to one of greater concentration (opposed to exosmosis).
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Etymology
Origin of endosmosis
1830–40; Latinization of now obsolete endosmose < French; see end-, osmosis
Example Sentences
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In the placenta the embryonic and maternal vessels without actually communicating, are placed in intimate contact, which allows nutritive matter and oxygen to pass by endosmosis from the maternal vessels to those of the embryo.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
There may be, he suggests, in the psychical world, a process analogous to what is known in the physical world as "endosmosis."
From Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn
Certain analogies between this selecting power and the phenomena of endosmosis in the elective affinities of chemistry we can find, but the problem of force remains here, as everywhere, unsolved and insolvable.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reality always is, in M. Bergson's phrase, an endosmosis or conflux of the same with the different: they compenetrate and telescope.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
The biologist imagines this and that about the invisible or hypothetical molecular structure; he assigns different functions to the atoms; some are for endosmosis, others for contraction, others for conduction of stimuli.
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
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