turgor

Significat (Anglès)

1. (countable, uncountable) Turgidity.
2. (countable, uncountable) The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane.
3. (countable, uncountable) Turgor pressure is the force or pressure within the cell exerted by fluid that presses the cell membrane against the cell wall.

Sinònims

tumescence

turgidity

Traduccions

turgescence

turgencia

turgore

şişkinlik

Turgor

turgescência

إكتناز

Etimologia (Anglès)

Learned borrowing from Latin turgor, from turgēre (“to be swollen”) + -or (forms a third-declension masculine abstract noun from a verb root).