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What is “osmotic pressure”

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What is “osmotic pressure”?


  1. the pressure exerted by a solution due to its concentration
  2. a measure of solution concentration expressed in the units of pressure
  3. the pressure exerted by the blood colloidal plasma proteins
  4. the pressure that drives water movement out of the arterial end of capillaries

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B: Osmotic pressure is a way of expressing solution concentration.

The word pressure in the term “osmotic pressure” makes it tempting to erroneously

think of the solution exerting some type of pressure due to its solutes.

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