What does OP stand for?

Osmotic Pressure

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Organophosphate (insecticide) Organophosphorus (pesticide) Orienteering Problem Original Pack (pharmacology) Original Poster Original Poster (internet newsgroups and message boards) Original Production Originating Party Oropharynx (anatomy) Orthographic Projection		Osteitis Pubis Osteoporosis Osuuspankki (Finnish banking cooperative) Other People Other Procurement Out of Print Outpatient Outpatient Pharmacy Outpicked (gaming) Outpost (gaming)

Samples in periodicals archive:

Understanding How Reverse Osmosis Works In order to understand how RO works, one must look into the physics of osmotic pressure and semipermeable membranes.

Reverse Osmosis Design for the Food & Beverage Industry - Designing ...

And finally how the disrupted Osmotic Pressure disrupts filtration and ends up blocking or nullifying the Parathyroid Hormone/ Calcitonin Negative Feedback Loop for regulating the Calcium/Phosphate balance.

Auto-Immune Disease and the Internal Shock Response to Nutrient ...

This occurs because alcohol confuses osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus, which relay osmotic pressure information to the posterior pituitary the site of ADH release.

Side Effects of Alcoholism

Water moves freely between intra-cellular and extra-cellular compartments in response to osmotic pressure gradients created by effective solutes (Na+, K+, and mannitol) that are impermeable to the cell membrane (1).

Letter to the editor

The patent pending process called Lintonizing[TM] restores turgor to the cellular plant structure not by increasing osmotic pressure within the cell membrane as conventionally understood, but rather by shrinking the cell wall around the cell membrane.

Viands Concerted[TM] introduces patent-pending food process for ...

A hyposmolar solution with an osmotic pressure of 200mOsm/L, the product helps rehydrate infants, especially when they have diarrhea.

Wakodo to Market New Oral Rehydration Solution for Infants

As large molecules dissolve in the food, a high-concentration solution is produced, creating osmotic pressure that then draws more water through the membrane.

Water purification

The purpose of my project is to test the influence of dextrose in relationship to osmotic pressure when buffalo grass cultures are frozen in liquid nitrogen.

Osmotic inducement to cryopreserved clones. (Senior Division)