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 (opposed to 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; see end-, osmosis

Example Sentences

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Its absorption takes place, according to Fischer and Dutrochet, who have investigated the subject at great length, by the process known as endosmosis.

From Manures and the principles of manuring by Aikman, Charles Morton

This process is now to a large extent superseded by what is called the diffusion process, depending on the well known physical phenomena of endosmosis and exosmosis.

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

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 Forel, Auguste

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 Gunn, John Alexander