The inward or internal movement of a fluid through a membrane, especially used as an alternative term for endosmosis in scientific contexts.
From Greek 'endo-' (inward) + 'osmos' (impulse/push). This is a direct Greek construction, sometimes used instead of the Latin-influenced 'endosmosis' in older scientific literature.
19th-century scientists used the term 'endosmos' to describe something mysterious happening in plant cells, but they didn't understand what they were seeing until chemistry advanced—what looked like magic was actually the predictable behavior of molecules following thermodynamic laws.
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