Exosmose

Ex´os`mose`


n.1.(Physics) The passage of gases, vapors, or liquids through membranes or porous media from within outward, in the phenomena of osmose; - opposed to endosmose. See Osmose.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Free amino acids exosmose like inorganic electrolytes from cells that are damaged by high temperature or other stresses, but unlike inorganic electrolytes, typically occur only in living cells (Thimann, 1987).
The results demonstrated that amino acids exosmose like inorganic electrolytes when cells are damaged by high temperature as they do when cells are damaged by low temperature (Siminovitch et a1.,1964).