a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
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(chemistry) a method of producing pure water; a solvent passes through a semipermeable membrane in a direction opposite to that for natural osmosis when it is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure greater than the osmotic pressure
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a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Cell biology, Medical physiology.(biology, chemistry) diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Physics, Biology, Cell biology, Medical physiology.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Cell biology, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal equilibrium between acids and alkalis in the body; "with a normal acid-base balance in the body the blood is s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Chemistry, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Medical physiology.(physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Medical physiology.(physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Medical physiology.the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Medical physiology.the amount of blood pumped out by the ventricles in a given period of time; "a resting adult has a cardiac output of about three quart…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Physics, Medical physiology.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Cell biology.the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Physics, Medical physiology.the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Physics, Medical physiology.the junction between two neurons (axon-to-dendrite) or between a neuron and a muscle; "nerve impulses cross a synapse through the acti…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Medical physiology.(pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Chemistry.long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Biology, Cell biology.long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
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To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surf…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.The chemistry of living organisms; the chemistry of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the ele…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemistry, method, producing, pure, water.separation of substances in solution by means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes
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