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 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 Burroughs, John

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

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

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

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