Osmosis vs Cytolysis - What's the difference?
osmosis | cytolysis |
The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of high solvent potential to a region of lower solvent potential through a partially permeable membrane
(slang) Picking up knowledge accidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.
* 1999 , Neil Gaiman, Stardust , pages 36-37 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
The pathological breakdown of a cell due to the bursting of the cell membrane caused by osmosis.
As nouns the difference between osmosis and cytolysis
is that osmosis is the net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of high solvent potential to a region of lower solvent potential through a partially permeable membrane while cytolysis is the pathological breakdown of a cell due to the bursting of the cell membrane caused by osmosis.osmosis
English
(wikipedia osmosis)Noun
(osmoses)- I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis .
- At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis , of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristram learned of sex.