Sentences with phrase «characterizes osmotic»
The semipermeable membranes required to produce the fluid flow that characterizes osmotic phenomena initially came from biological sources; French scientist René Dutrochet wrote in 1828, «it appears from these new studies that the endosmotic and exosmotic phenomena, which I discovered, belong to a new class of physical phenomena, whose powerful intervention in the vital phenomenon is no longer doubtful.»
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Congenital sucrase - isomaltase deficiency, a rare inherited metabolic disorder characterized by the absence or inactivity of the sucrase - isomaltase complex, results in osmotic diarrhea when sucrose is ingested because it can not be hydrolyzed.