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isosmotic

ADJECTIVE
  1. (used of solutions) having the same or equal osmotic pressure

How To Use isosmotic In A Sentence

  • Desert gopher tortoises also store dilute urine that buffers evaporative loss and allows them to hold blood osmotic concentration constant, at least until bladder contents become isosmotic with blood.
  • Replacement of NaCl for isosmotic sorbitol produced a slight depolarization of the membrane.
  • This led us to the hypothesis that terrestrial crabs have the option of directing isosmotic urine to organs that, unlike the antennal gland, are capable of producing strong gradients.
  • Fortner and Pickford found that cortisol increased plasma chloride levels in hypophysectomized black bullhead, and that both prolactin and cortisol were necessary to maintain normal ion homeostatsis under isosmotic conditions.
  • A control experiment was performed for each group, in which cells were perfused with isosmotic media.
  • Control experiments confirmed that no volume change occurred following perfusion of cells with isosmotic media.
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