Turgor Definition

tûrgər, -gôr
noun
Turgescence; turgidity.
Webster's New World
The normal distention or rigidity of living animal and plant cells due to pressure against the plasma membrane from within by the cell contents.
Webster's New World

(physics) The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane.

Wiktionary

Turgidity.

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Origin of Turgor

  • Late Latin from Latin turgēre to be swollen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Turgor Sentence Examples

  • This regulation of turgor is as characteristic of vegetable protoplasm as contraction is of muscle.

  • It is this cell turgor that gives the plant support.

  • The extent of the area affected and of the variation in the turgor depends upon many circumstances, but we have no doubt that in the process of modifying its own permeability by some molecular change we have the counterpart of muscular contractibility.

  • Water will be lost through transpiration or just used for maintaining turgor in cells.

  • C. Signs of dehydration such as poor skin turgor, serum electrolyte imbalance, increased weakness, or fatigue.

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