What's the difference between osmosis and tonicity?

Osmosis


Definition:

  • (n.) Osmose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) CDI and reverse osmosis (RO) equipment can form the key elements of water treatment trains that produce ultrapure water, without the need for the chemical regenerants associated with batch ion-exchange processes.
  • (2) At 10(-6)M amphotericin B, the DC membrane resistance fell from approximately 10(8) to approximately 10(2) ohm-cm(2), and the membranes became Cl(-)-, rather than Na(+)-selective; the permeability coefficients for hydrophilic nonelectrolytes increased in inverse relationship to solute size, and the rate of water flow during osmosis increased 30-fold.
  • (3) Read more The first plant using manipulated osmosis began operating in Gibraltar in March 2009.
  • (4) These results cast doubt on the suggestions that gas-induced osmosis is an important factor in dysbarism or in clinical anesthesia.
  • (5) The swelling of the red blood cells was probably due to osmosis caused by Cl- exchanged for the HCO3- which was produced rapidly by carbonic anhydrase present in the red blood cells.
  • (6) The reverse osmosis water is the main contamination source for the bicarbonate dialysate, the application of which within 6 hours seems worth being used on account of the low germ count.
  • (7) They induce volume flows across different pathways, e.g., osmosis predominantly across the cellular route and pressure filtration predominantly across paracellular routes.
  • (8) Hence non-linear osmosis in rabbit gall-bladder is due to a decrease in water permeability with increasing osmolarity.6.
  • (9) A brilliant sequence to this simple idea followed through Poynting, Arrhenius, Noyes and culminated with Hulett, who in 1901 formulated the "solvent tension theory" of osmosis, stating in essence that the thermal motion of the solute molecules by impact with the free solvent surface put the solvent under tension.
  • (10) Then with self-powered force (osmosis) substance is released with constant rate over period of 1-4 weeks (model pending).
  • (11) Experiments on the purification of wash water by means of reverse osmosis membranes MGA-100 were performed.
  • (12) Water flows by osmosis across the membrane into a sealed chamber where it creates pressure.
  • (13) After installation of reverse osmosis units there was a decrease in the aluminium concentrations in plasma.
  • (14) Proposed nonischemic changes, such as hyperoxic injury gas-induced osmosis, or autoimmunity, lack sufficient supporting evidence.
  • (15) Efficiency of energy conversion for electro-osmosis and streaming potential and the degree of coupling of acids across urinary bladder membranes of goat have been computed using non-equilibrium thermodynamic theory.
  • (16) We can't leave change to osmosis since it's self-awareness that accelerates the positive and works faster to eliminate the negative.
  • (17) Osmosis is apparently the mechanism responsible for the coupling of water to solute transport in biological membranes.
  • (18) We insist that to prevent the occurrence and worsening of bone disease during chronic hemopurification, reverse osmosis water should be used to prepare dialysates and substitution fluids.
  • (19) We measured endotoxin and bacterial levels in tap water, in water purified by reverse osmosis, and in dialysate samples over a 4-month period in a new 10-bed renal dialysis unit.
  • (20) The hydraulic resistance was measured on internodal cells of Nitellopsis obtusa using the method of transcellular osmosis.

Tonicity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested that diabetes causes selective changes in the functioning of Gi in adipocyte membranes which removes the tonic GTP-dependent inhibitory function of this G-protein.
  • (2) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
  • (3) In intact cell preparations, diamide produced a slow tonic contraction, consistent with myofibril activation.
  • (4) However, tetanic stimulation gave the same results as in untreated preparations when the tonicity was increased.
  • (5) Stimulus-response characteristics suggested that this system was well suited for a role in tonic inhibition of sympathetic activity.
  • (6) The amplitude was 15-70% as large as the tonic component of the K-contracture induced by 40 mM K. Theophylline (10 mM), 0.1 mM papaverine and 1 microM isoprenaline nearly abolished, and 1 mM cAMP partly depressed the tonic contraction of K-contracture, whereas the tonic contraction induced by the test solution was unaffected.
  • (7) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
  • (8) Some organization schemes concerning locomotor and scratching rhythmicity generators are considered, such as: two half-centres with reciprocal inhibitory connections and tonic excitatory influences on these half-centres: two half-centres with inhibitory-excitatory connections and tonic excitatory influences on one half-centre; ring structures consisting of more than two functional groups of neurons with excitatory and inhibitory connections between them.
  • (9) Overall, carbamazepine and phenytoin are recommended drugs of first choice for single-drug therapy of adults with partial or generalized tonic-clonic seizures or with both.
  • (10) It was previously believed that the period of the circadian clock was primarily responsive to externally imposed tonic or phasic events.
  • (11) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (12) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
  • (13) Amplitudes of the tonic response evoked by 39 mM-K+ in intact muscle tissues and the contraction induced by 0.3 microM-Ca2+ in skinned muscle were much the same.
  • (14) Tonic sympathetic neural control of heart rate was inferred from bradycardia after treatment with the adrenergic neuron-blocking agent, bretylium tosylate.
  • (15) These results clearly indicate that in both intact and OVX does, endogenous NPY is in part responsible for maintaining basal, tonic LH secretion.
  • (16) All motoneuron firing during fictive swimming is associated with a tonic depolarization that falls away slowly once firing stops, is increased by hyperpolarizing current, and is reduced by depolarizing current.
  • (17) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
  • (18) Lateralization may be an expression of reflex constraints bound initially to the infant's tonic-neck posture, with later development less reflex-patterned during the acquisition of more sophisticated information-processing strategies.
  • (19) During each session, measurements were made of either tonic accommodation or tonic vergence 30 s before stimulus onset and at 0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 min after stimulus offset.
  • (20) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).

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