osmosis
The swelling of the capsule is due to osmotic intake of water.
These processes help maintain osmotic balance in the body.
Circulation of the distilled water encourages osmotic exchange of the salts over a period of several days.

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Examples of osmotic

osmotic
In addition, because of the high osmotic pressure generated by sucrose, the perivitelline spaces of mouse oocytes were enlarged.
Osmotic potential was determined by rupturing membranes in the tissue by freezing.
Seeds submitted to the lower osmotic potentials were covered by much more mucilage than normal.
This is a very fragile membrane that is susceptible to osmotic changes which can greatly alter its size, shape and texture.
When acrosome breakdown was induced by osmotic shock, 15% of the population presented intense fluorescence at the anterior tip of the head.
Firstly, cellular necrosis as a direct result of physical cryoinjury sustained through ice crystallization or osmotic shock.
Osmotic and salt stressinduced alteration in soluble carbohydrate content in wheat seedlings.
The water potential at the water source in the underlying soil (also affected by osmotic, matric, and gravitational potentials) serves as the reference potential.
Studies of colloid osmotic pressure in pregnancy induced hypertension.
Increasing the solute concentration increases the osmotic pressure.
During the early dry and dry seasons of 2002, leaf water potential and osmotic pressure were measured before and after a dew deposition event occurred.
Osmotic agents cause fluid retention and fluid secretion into the lumen.
The relationship between ethylene and increased osmotic potential is not well understood.
In addition, starch, sugars produced by its hydrolysis, and the resulting changes in osmotic potential all appear to be potentially important regulators.
In contrast, the osmotic pressure of the glucose-potassium solution tested were mostly maintained by glucose.
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