osmosensitivity

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English

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Etymology

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osmosensitive +‎ -ity

Noun

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osmosensitivity (usually uncountable, plural osmosensitivities)

  1. (nematology, neurology) An organism's degree of sensitivity to osmotic gradients
    The mutant strain exhibited reduced osmosensitivity.
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