Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Osmotic Pressure  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Hypertonic Shock
  • Hypertonic Shocks
  • Hypertonic Stress
  • Hypertonic Stresses
  • Hypotonic Shock
  • Hypotonic Shocks
  • Hypotonic Stress
  • Hypotonic Stresses
  • Osmotic Shock
  • Osmotic Shocks
  • Osmotic Stress
  • Osmotic Stresses
  • Shock, Hypertonic
  • Shock, Hypotonic
  • Shock, Osmotic
  • Shocks, Hypertonic
  • Shocks, Hypotonic
  • Shocks, Osmotic
  • Stresses, Hypertonic
  • Stresses, Hypotonic
  • Stresses, Osmotic
  • Stress, Hypertonic
  • Stress, Hypotonic
  • Stress, Osmotic

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 74(68)

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009997

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 6/17/16