Osmosis vs Dialysis - What's the difference?
osmosis | dialysis |
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)
(chemistry) A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
(medicine) Haemodialysis.
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(rhetoric) The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
(rhetoric) Asyndeton.
As nouns the difference between osmosis and dialysis
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 dialysis is a method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.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.
Derived terms
* electroosmosis * endosmosis * exosmosisdialysis
English
Noun
(dialyses)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}