Crossword-Solution: HYPOTONIC
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| BELOW normal tension | 1 answer |
| BELOW normal tone | 1 answer |
| Low in tension, as muscles | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAZEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HYPOTONIC (5)
When comparing two solutions of different concentration, the solution with the higher osmotic pressure is said to be hypertonic, and that with the lower osmotic pressure hypotonic.
When immersed in a hypertonic solution, it retracts; in a slightly hypotonic solution it absorbs water and becomes turgescent, while in a very hypotonic solution it swells up and bursts.
These give it an osmotic pressure which prevents the deleterious effects of a strongly hypotonic liquid.
During a surgical operation it is of the first importance not to injure the living surfaces by flooding them with strongly hypertonic or hypotonic solutions.
Under the influence of such a hypotonic solution the dry cells rapidly swell up, burst, and are dissolved.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).