单词 | homoeosmotic |
释义 | > as lemmashomoeosmotic homoeosmotic adj. Brit. /ˌhɒmɪɒzˈmɒtɪk/ , /ˌhəʊmɪɒzˈmɒtɪk/ , U.S. /ˌhoʊmiˌɑzˈmɑdɪk/ , /ˌhɑmiˌɑzˈmɑdɪk/ [osmotic adj.] Physiology (of an animal) maintaining a more or less constant concentration of solute in its body fluids regardless of fluctuations of the concentration in the surrounding medium; usually spelt homoi(o)-.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [adjective] > that maintains solute level homoeosmotic1905 1905 Biol. Bull. 8 266 Only a slight..change is induced by a change in the osmotic pressure of the external medium. The animals are ‘homoiosmotic’. 1931 Biol. Rev. 6 473 In contrast with these are the ‘homoiosmotic’ organisms which include typically estuarine animals such as Carcinus maenas. 1939 A. Krogh Osmotic Regulation in Aquatic Animals 8 When animals maintain a total concentration of their body fluids different from that of the surrounding water they can be termed ‘homoiosmotic’. 1953 E. Palmer tr. S. P. Ekman Zoogeogr. Sea vi. 118 Bony fishes and fresh-water animals in general are homoio-osmotic. 1967 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. II. xviii. 153 Such animals have thus become at least to some extent osmotically independent of their environment; they are at least partly homoiosmotic. < as lemmas |
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