OSMOTIC FRAGILITY

  

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OSMOTIC FRAGILITY

Specialty Definition: OSMOTIC FRAGILITY

DomainDefinition

Health

Red blood cell sensitivity to change in osmotic pressure. When exposed to a hypotonic concentration of sodium in a solution, red cells take in more water, swell until the capacity of the cell membrane is exceeded, and burst. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: OSMOTIC FRAGILITY

Specialty definitions using "OSMOTIC FRAGILITY": Spherocytosis, Hereditary. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: OSMOTIC FRAGILITY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

osmotic fragility

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: OSMOTIC FRAGILITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-f-g-i-i-i-l-m-o-o-r-s-t-t-y"

-5 letters: formalistic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OSMOTIC FRAGILITY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 53 4D 4F 54 49 43      46 52 41 47 49 4C 49 54 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010011 01001101 01001111 01010100 01001001 01000011 00100000 01000110 01010010 01000001 01000111 01001001 01001100 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#83 &#77 &#79 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#70 &#82 &#65 &#71 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0053 004D 004F 0054 0049 0043      0046 0052 0041 0047 0049 004C 0049 0054 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

495347495443372405235414346435459

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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