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Abstract
The pressure required to prevent the passage of solvent through a semipermeable membrane that separates a pure solvent from a solution of the solvent and solute or that separates different concentrations of a solution. It is proportional to the osmolality of the solution.
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- Osmotic Pressures
- Pressure, Osmotic
- Pressures, Osmotic
- Hypertonic Shock
- Hypertonic Stress
- Hypotonic Shock
- Hypotonic Stress
- Osmotic Shock
- Osmotic Stress
- Hypertonic Shocks
- Hypertonic Stresses
- Hypotonic Shocks
- Hypotonic Stresses
- Osmotic Shocks
- Osmotic Stresses
- Shock, Hypertonic
- Shock, Hypotonic
- Shock, Osmotic
- Shocks, Hypertonic
- Shocks, Hypotonic
- Shocks, Osmotic
- Stress, Hypertonic
- Stress, Hypotonic
- Stress, Osmotic
- Stresses, Hypertonic
- Stresses, Hypotonic
- Stresses, Osmotic
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Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, physiology, radiation effects.
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74(68)
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- Osmosis (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Osmotic Pressure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009997. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009997
- Osmotic Pressure. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_pressure
- Osmotic Pressure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193135