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The reverse happens in freshwater fish: they tend to gain water osmotically.

All three are osmotically active substances found in humans.

So have I, even if it's osmotically acquired.

"They have gills and membranes that allow a transfer of water osmotically," he said.

So a lot of what I know comes in osmotically from whatever I happen to be reading.

Well, of course - and in the television age, no one has done it more often or more osmotically than the Disney empire.

The term comes from the phenomenon of osmosis, and is typically used for osmotically active solutions.

As a result of differences in water potential, water moves osmotically into the sieve tube element.

In addition, water is reabsorbed osmotically.

Such a solution provides an osmotically neutral fluid that once in the body is digested by cells into glucose and free water.

Because of its high sugar concentration, it kills bacteria by osmotically lysing them.

At times, the author's voice is a digest of borrowed styles, a collection of osmotically acquired tics.

Water in the tubular lumen follows the sodium reabsorption osmotically.

It is unclear whether it made food via photosynthesis, or osmotically extracted nutrients from seawater.

During slow cooling ice forms extracellularly, causing water to osmotically leave cells, thereby dehydrating them.

These medications soften the fecal mass by osmotically drawing water into the GI tract.

It is specifically needed in the mammalian kidney as an osmotically active compound which facilitates passive re-uptake of water into the blood.

Equipment cabinets, with a medical look, were fused into the polyp, as though they were being extruded, or osmotically absorbed.

Cholestyramine prevents this increase in water by making the bile acids insoluble and osmotically inactive.

Some tablets are designed with an osmotically active core, surrounded by an impermeable membrane with a pore in it.

Figuring that I live somewhere between rungs 1 and 2, I absorbed what I could osmotically.

Being weak, it will again burst osmotically, and reform further on.so a 'branch' will grow out from the fibre.

Saltwater is less dilute than these internal fluids, so saltwater fish lose large quantities of water osmotically through their gills.

I haven't seen that much of The Wire, myself - though being surrounded by Wire-head colleagues have been forced to absorb it osmotically.

Lost blood volume will be replaced osmotically from water held in body cells and other body compartments, causing dehydration and increased thirst.