Look up: hypotonic


  1. Hypotonic
    a comparison between two solutions, indicating that one has a lower osmotic pressure, or is less salty than the other.
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  2. hypotonic
    [adj] - (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension 2. [adj] - of a solution
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  3. hypotonic
    Compare with osmotic pressure. Describes a solution which has lower osmotic pressure than some other solution (usually, lower osmotic pressure than cell or body fluids). Washing your contact lenses with distilled water rather than saline is painful because distilled water is hypotonic; it causes wat...
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  4. hypotonic
    Of a fluid, having a concentration that will cause osmotic shrinkage of cells immersed in it. Not necessarily hypo-osmotic.
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  5. hypotonic
    1. Having a lesser degree of tension. ... 2. Having a lesser osmotic pressure than a reference solution, which is ordinarily assumed to be blood plasma or interstitial fluid; more specifically, refers to a fluid in which cells would swell. ... Synonym: hypoisotonic. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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  6. hypotonic
    adjective (of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution
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  7. hypotonic
    (hi-po-ton´ik) having abnormally reduced tonicity or tension. having an osmotic pressure lower than that of the solution with which it is compared.
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  8. hypotonic
    hypotonic 1. Having a lesser degree of tension. 2. Having a lesser osmotic pressure than a reference solution, which is ordinarily assumed to be blood plasma or interstitial fluid; more specifically, it refers to a fluid in which cells would swell.
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  9. Hypotonic
    - a comparison between two solutions, indicating that one has a lower osmotic pressure, or is less salty than the other.
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  10. hypotonic
    Type: Term Pronunciation: hī′pō-ton′ik Definitions: 1. Having a lesser degree of tension. 2. Having a lesser osmotic pressure than a reference solution, which is ordinarily assumed to be blood plasma or interstitial fluid; more specifically, refers to a fluid in which cells wou...
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  11. hypotonic
    A solution having a low concentration of solute.
    Found op http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookglossh.html

  12. hypotonic
    1) Low in tension, as muscles
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