Concept information
Preferred term
Osmotic Pressure
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
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
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Finnish
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pressus osmoticus
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009997
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