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 water to move into cells, and they swell and burst.
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a comparison between two solutions, indicating that one has a lower osmotic pressure, or is less salty than the other.
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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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(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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Of a fluid, having a concentration that will cause osmotic shrinkage of cells immersed in it. Not necessarily hypo-osmotic.
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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 would swell. Synonyms: hypoisotonic
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in two solation which have lawer solute con centration is called hypotonic.
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adj] - (of living tissue) lacking normal tone or tension 2. [adj] - of a solution
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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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adjective (of a solution) having a lower osmotic pressure than a comparison solution
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A solution having a low concentration of solute.
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A fluid that contains a ratio of electrolytes to water that is less than extracelluar fluid. A fluid that contains a concentration of electrolytes less than extracellular fluid.
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Hypotonic solutions have lower osmolalities than extracellular fluid/plasma.
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(of tissue) having less than the normal tone. · noting a solution of lower osmotic pressure than another solution with which it is compared (opposed to hypertonic). Cf. isotonic (def. 1).
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