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

Derived Forms

• endosmotic
  adjective
• endosmotically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of endosmosis

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

Example Sentences

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

Soon, however, by a sort of endosmosis to which the densest vanity is somewhat subject, the truth began to seep through and to penetrate into him.

From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.

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

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