Definition of "endosmosis" []

• The inward flow of a fluid through a permeable membrane toward a fluid of greater concentration. (noun)

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• "The reason for this is found in the fact that endosmosis is most pronounced where the blood pressure is greatest."
• "Now, it is pretty well conceded by physiologists, that electricity stimulates the secretory as well as excretory organs; that it furthers endosmosis and exosmosis — by its electrolytic influence in a physical, by its influence on the nervous system in a catalytic manner, in short, and by virtue of these properties, that it greatly"
• "We find therein also a manifest proof and a rational explanation of those grave errors into which the presence of these fatty matters, that have hitherto been scarcely suspected, led so clever and so distinguished a scientist as the illustrious discoverer of endosmosis."