osmosis

Updated: May 8, 2025

Here are proper conditions for osmosis, and this process of dialysis will take place whenever the intestinal contents holds more dialyzable material than the blood.

H. W. (Herbert William) Conn - The Story of the Living Machine: A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard: to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living: Activity

Now when this blood in its circulation flows through the active tissues for instance, the muscles it is again placed under conditions where osmosis is sure to occur. In the muscles the thin-walled blood-vessels are surrounded and bathed by a liquid called lymph. The lymph, which is not shown, fills all the space outside the blood-vessels, thus bathing both muscles and blood-vessels.

H. W. (Herbert William) Conn - The Story of the Living Machine: A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard: to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living: Activity