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What does turgor mean?

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Noun
  1. turgidity
  2. (physics) the pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane.
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The plant cell also contains an enlarged storage vacuole, which also provides support through turgor pressure.
When mature, a perithecium contains several hundred asci that are ejected by turgor pressure.
Ingressed polysaccharides participate in immune reactions, favour recovery of the epithelial cells, better skin turgor.
Fungal cells maintain a very high turgor pressure, so the integrity of the cell wall is a critical matter.
Thus, osmolytes are needed to provide the driving force for water influx to increase turgor.
An increase in turgor also causes a depolarization in the turgor-regulating charophytes Chara longifolia and Lamprothamnium succinctum.

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