Turgor

Definition: Turgor

Turgor

Noun

1. (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane.

Domain	Definition
Food & Agriculture	The tension inside a cell; quantitatively measurable. Source: European Union. (references)
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Turgor (also called turgor pressure or osmotic pressure) is the pressure that can build in a space that is enclosed by a membrane that is permeable to a solvent such as water but not to solutes.

A biological cell, for example a plant cell, contains ions, sugars, amino acids, and other substances. In a hypotonic environment, water flows across the plasma membrane into the cell (since the concentration of water is lower inside the cell than outside), causing it to expand. The cell wall of a plant cell restricts the expansion, causing the cell to press against the wall. The resulting pressure is called turgor.

See also: Pfeffer cell -- cell wall

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	Due to severe dehydration, cholera manifests itself in decreased skin turgor, which produces the so-called "Washer Woman's Hand" sign. Credit: CDC.
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"Turgor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Turgor" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

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.

Language		Translations for "turgor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		turgor, saftspaending. (various references)

Dutch		turgor. (various references)

Finnish		turgori, nestejännitys. (various references)

German		Turgor. (various references)

Greek		σπαργή. (various references)

Italian		turgore. (various references)

Pig Latin		urgortay

Portuguese		turgescência (swelling). (various references)

Romanian		turgescenţã. (various references)

Swedish		turgor, saftspänning. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "turgor": turgors. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-o-r-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: grout.
	-2 letters: gout, grot, rout, torr, tour, trug.
	-3 letters: gor, got, gut, ort, our, out, rot, rug, rut, tog, tor, tug.
	-4 letters: go, or, to, ut.
	Words containing the letters "g-o-r-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: grouter, turgors.
	+2 letters: grouters, groutier.
	+3 letters: corrugate, drugstore, graduator, guarantor, outrigger, purgatory, regulator, rerouting, rewrought, surrogate, torturing.
	+4 letters: corrugated, corrugates, corrupting, droughtier, drugstores, expurgator, graduators, granulator, guarantors, intergroup, outriggers, outroaring, outwarring, overstrung, overturing, protruding, purporting, regulators, regulatory, surrogated, surrogates, thorougher, unarrogant.
	+5 letters: burgomaster, compurgator, corrugating, corrugation, expurgators, expurgatory, granulators, gratulatory, grotesquery, groundburst, groundwater, inaugurator, objurgatory, overturning, overwrought, promulgator, purgatorial, purgatories, resprouting, rotogravure, supergrowth, superstrong, surrogating, terrigenous, undergrowth.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
pressure turgor	10
turgor	9
skin turgor	4
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Turgor

Definition: Turgor

Turgor

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