endosmos mic (endosmosmik)

An incorrect form for endosmotic or end osmic. endosmotic (en-dos-mot'ik), a. [ Root-pre ure is probably a purely physical phenomenon, due to a kind of endosmotic action taking place in the Be ey, Botany, p. 174. root-cells. Endosmose is independent of any interchange, since it results entirely from the attraction of the di olving substance for the solvent; and this attraction is invariable at the same temperature, and may be termed endosmotic force. Sachs , Botany (trans.), p. 597. Endosmotic equivalent, the number expre ing the ratio of the amount by weight of water which pa es through a porous membrane into a saline solution to that of the amount of salt pa ing in the opposite direction. endosmotically (en-dos-mot'i-kal-i), adv. By means of endosmosis; in an endosmotic man ner. The nutritive fluid pa es endosmotically into the body parenchyma. Claus , Zoology (trans.), p. 307.