osmolarity
Americannoun
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The water it lives in has very high osmolarity, which causes water to constantly diffuse out of the fish’s body.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
What would happen to the osmolarity of the interstitial fluid if water could not exit the descending limb?
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
There would be no change in the osmolarity.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The measure of the tonicity of a solution, or the total amount of solutes dissolved in a specific amount of solution, is called its osmolarity.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Three terms—hypotonic, isotonic, and hypertonic—are used to relate the osmolarity of a cell to the osmolarity of the extracellular fluid that contains the cells.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
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