endosmosis

American  

[en-doz-moh-sis, -dos-] / ˌɛn dɒzˈmoʊ sɪs, -dɒs- /

noun

1. Biology. osmosis toward the inside of a cell or vessel.

2. Physical Chemistry. the flow of a substance from an area of lesser concentration to one of greater concentration (exosmosis ).

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endosmosis British  

/ ˌɛndɒsˈmɒtɪk, ˌɛndɒsˈməʊsɪs, -dɒz-, -dɒz- /

noun

1. biology osmosis in which water enters a cell or organism from the surrounding solution Compare exosmosis

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Other Word Forms

• endosmotic adjective
• endosmotically adverb

Etymology

Origin of endosmosis

1830–40; Latinization of now obsolete endosmose < French; end-, osmosis

Example Sentences

The result is that a current of endosmosis takes place from the water toward the juice in the cells, and a current of exosmosis from the juice toward the water.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various

Up to this point the vitellus of the egg, nourished by endosmosis through its membranes, had sufficed for the nutrition of the still very small embryo.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

If, now, by way of my stomach, through endosmosis and exosmosis, I get them more water, the proper conditions will return.''

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

During the storage of eggs the more aqueous white of egg yields by endosmosis a portion of its water to the more concentrated yolk, which thereby expands and renders its thin containing-membrane liable to rupture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

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 James, William