turgor

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

turgescência

Sinônimos

tumescence

turgidity

Traduções

turgore

turgescence

turgencia

Turgor

şişkinlik

إكتناز

Etimologia (Inglês)

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