osmosis

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Introduction

The process of a solvent moving through a semipermeable membrane from a solution of lesser osmolality to one of greater osmolality. The semipermeable membrane is necessarily impermeable to the solute(s) creating the osmotic pressure gradient.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.