Turgor

Word TURGOR
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Definitions and meanings of "Turgor"

What do we mean by turgor?

The normal fullness or tension produced by the fluid content of living cells or of blood vessels and capillaries. noun

In physiology, the normal fullness of the capillaries and smaller blood-vessels, upon which is supposed to depend in part the resilience of the tissues: usually qualified by the epithet vital. noun

In botany See the quotation. noun

The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane. noun

Turgidity noun

(biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane noun

Turgidity

The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane.

Internal pressure of a cell due to water held there by osmotic pressure Urban Dictionary

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The word "turgor" in example sentences

"However, they decline with age, and this leads to drier skin and loss of cell volume or 'turgor'."

Methods that involve detaching parts of the plant are destructive and survival studies rely on qualitative observation of physical symptoms of water deficit stress such as turgor loss, chlorosis, and other qualities that can vary greatly between specimens and are also sensitive to experimental conditions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Wrinkles and skin sagging occur when skin loses collagen and the skin cell interior's ability to maintain 'turgor' decreases.

Tree health increases host resistance to beetle attack: healthy spruce trees can successfully resist moderate numbers of beetle attacks by opposing the wood-boring activity of females entering the tree to lay eggs with pitch under high turgor pressure [9]. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Host trees that are under stress, including either climate stress or stress from mechanical breakage, have reduced growth reserves, less pitch, and lower turgor pressure, and so are less able to resist spruce bark beetle attacks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These appendages are manipulated by muscle movement and turgor pressure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They actually take some of the blood, they re-hydrate it, give it a little bit more turgor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Root and stem xylem embolism, stomatal conductance, and leaf turgor in Acer grandidentatum populations along a soil moisture gradient. ❋ Unknown (2006)

For otherwise healthy adults, the triggers for the need for immediate medical attention for diarrhea include blood and/or mucus in the stools, fever accompanied by shaking chills, and/or if dehydration is occurring (symptoms of dehydration include a dry or sticky mouth, low or no urine output (concentrated urine appears dark yellow), not producing tears, and sunken eyes; clinical signs include low blood pressure, rapid pulse rates, poor skin turgor, and delayed capillary refill). ❋ Unknown (2004)

But in the afternoon, they would droop, lose turgor, and stop growing as the temperature outpaced the available water. ❋ Unknown (2005)

TECHTONADISH: Well, usually in a kid, you look for sunken eyes and skin that doesn't come back, decreased skin turgor (ph). ❋ Unknown (2005)

TECTONIDIS: Well, usually in a kid, you look for sunken eyes and skin that doesn't come back, decreased skin turgor. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As crisp, crunchy lettuce and celery use up their water, their cells lose turgor pressure and they become limp and chewy p. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

"Poor epithelial turgor, you know diveskin's only an expression, you weren't supposed to live in it." ❋ Unknown (1999)

Because of the small size and the turgor under which ❋ Unknown (1995)

Barrel torsos, some one hundred fifty centimeters tall on four stumpy limbs, covered with big scales or flaps, brown and leathery, that could individually lift to show a soft pink un-dersurface for fluid intake, excretion, sensing; no head to speak of, a bulge on top where a mouth underlay one scale and four retractable eyestalks protruded; four tentacles below, each terminating in four digits, that could be stiffened at will by turgor. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

Some are quick responses that are almost animal-like in their resemblance to muscle action (and yet not involving muscles but, rather, such mechanisms as controlled turgor by alteration of the quantity of water present at key spots). ❋ Asimov, Isaac (1963)

The physiological plant ecologist Professor Jack Rutter, who has died aged 92, did outstanding work on water relations - a plant's uptake of water from the soil, its maintenance of turgor cell rigidity and the transpiration from the stomatal pores in its leaves. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[A plant] [cell] has its normal shape and turgor pressure in [isotonic] solution ❋ James (2003)

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