turgor

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

turgescence

Synonymes

tumescence

turgidity

Traductions

turgore

turgencia

إكتناز

turgescência

Turgor

şişkinlik

Étymologie (Anglais)

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