Semipermeable
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Introduction
- Freely permeable to water (or other solvent), but relatively impermeable to other substances.
- impermeable to all solutes except small uncharged molecules, i.e. cell membrane
- impermeable to large molecules (i.e. proteins)
- Freely permeable to water (or other solvent), but relatively impermeable to other substances.
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References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
