tonicity
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Tonicity is a concern for all living things.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Tonicity describes how the extracellular concentration of solutes can change the volume of a cell by affecting osmosis, often correlating with the osmolarity of the solution, i.e., the total solute concentration of the solution.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022