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(biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane
Answer for the clue "(biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane ", 6 letters:
turgor
Word definitions for turgor in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, from medical Latin turgor , from Latin turgere "to swell" (see turgid ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) the pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane. 2 turgidity
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane
Usage examples of turgor.
The scale of such vistas so great that their sense of themselves, the plain humanness aggrandizing every puny ego, lost its turgor, its shape, a goodly portion of its size.
Yvette, her eyes closed, lost now in her own pleasure, noticed first the waning of turgor within her.
The raw materials came from Yggdrasil itselfderived from the adaptive mechanism by which a tree with a three-hundred-mile diameter synchronized the turgor movements of its leaves.
Yet there then remains a different sort of tension, one born of moving blood, of inflation, of turgor like that which keeps a leaf of lettuce from wilting.
She had a temperature of 102, dry skin with decreased turgor, shortness of breath, a racing pulse, and low blood pressure.
The miraculous budding of her face, renewed cheeks bright as the flesh of raw petals, ritual's signet pressed into living tissue for all to mark and know once again the vivifying power of ceremony, the repetition of right word and gesture opening a circuit in the aisle of time, eternity's proof in the turgor of the heart.