endosmosis
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Biology. osmosis toward the inside of a cell or vessel.
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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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Etymology
Origin of endosmosis
1830–40; Latinization of now obsolete endosmose < French; see end-, osmosis
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The reason for this is found in the fact that endosmosis is most pronounced where the blood pressure is greatest.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 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 William James
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 Auguste Forel
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
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 John Alexander Gunn
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