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hypertonic

About 0.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Having a greater osmotic pressure than another.
  2. adjective Having a very high muscular tension; spastic.

Similar words

supersaturated rich high concentrated hypersaline hyperbaric hypersaturated entonic oxytonic euoxic

Often followed by

saline solutions solution glucose sodium and to salt dehydration

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