Bueno, guillermo, esta es mi mamÃ¡. 1  Well, William, this is my mom. 2  I'll have to step out for a while, William. 3  The building was designed by the architect from Seville, Guillermo VÃ¡zquez Consuegra. 4  We'll call you Salvador Armando Guillermo Sanchez Garcia Morales. 5  You are a proxy, William. 6  You need to go to work, William.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: osmoconformer (Noun) any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Osmoconformer. Osmoconformers are marine animals which, in contrast to osmoregulators, maintain the osmolarity of their body fluids such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater. Osmoconformers decrease the net flux of water into or out of their bodies from diffusion.
Using these words and information we can now summarise osmosis with its definition. Osmosis is the movement of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane from higher water concentration to a lower water concentration-or-down a concentration gradient. Animal cells are surrounded only by the membrane and may swell up and burst if too much water enters by osmosis.