turgor

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Synoniemen

tumescence

turgidity

Vertalingen

turgescence

turgencia

turgore

şişkinlik

Turgor

turgescência

إكتناز

Etymologie (Engels)

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