Hypertonic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Pathology Having extreme muscular or arterial tension.
  • adj. Chemistry Having the higher osmotic pressure of two solutions.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. having a greater osmotic pressure than another
  • adj. having a very high muscular tension; spastic
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution; -- of an aqueous solution. Increasing the concentration of dissolved solids increases the osmotic pressure, and thus the tonicity of a solution. Opposite of hypotonic and contrasting with isotonic.
  • n. Having an osmotic pressure greater than that of blood plasma, which is approximately that of a 0.2 normal solution of sodium chloride. Cells taken from a medium of normal physiological osmolality and placed in a hypertonic medium will shrink.
  • n. in a state of abnormally high tension; -- of muscle.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In physical chemistry, having a greater osmotic pressure than some solution regarded as a standard. See isotonic, 2.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of living tissue) in a state of abnormally high tension
  • adj. (of a solution) having a higher osmotic pressure than a comparison solution
    • Antonym
    isotonic    hypotonic   
    Cross Reference
    isotonic   
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