PERMEABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does permeability mean? 

• PERMEABILITY (noun)
  The noun PERMEABILITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion)

  Familiarity information: PERMEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERMEABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid (as by osmosis or diffusion)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

permeability; permeableness

Hypernyms ("permeability" is a kind of...):

porosity; porousness (the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "permeability"):

absorbency (the property of being absorbent)

Antonym:

impermeability (the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid)

Derivation:

permeable (allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through)

 Context examples 

HuMV833 has been shown to decrease the permeability of blood vessels that supply tumors, an effect which may lead to slowed tumor growth.

(Monoclonal Antibody HuMV833, NCI Thesaurus)

This prevents VEGF165 from binding to VEGF receptors, thereby blocking angiogenesis as well as preventing VEGF165-induced increases in vessel permeability.

(Pegaptanib, NCI Thesaurus)

By disrupting fungal cell membrane synthesis and integrity, oxiconazole alters fungal cell membrane permeability, promotes loss of essential intracellular components and eventually inhibits fungal cell growth.

(Oxiconazole, NCI Thesaurus)

The permeability transition releases several factors including cytochrome c, AIF and other factors in to the cytoplasm.

(Apoptosis DNA Damage Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This allele, which encodes apoptosis regulator BAX protein, plays a role in the regulation of the apoptotic program by varying the permeability of the mitochondrial membrane.

(BAX wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An ion channel with selective permeability to calcium.

(Calcium Channel, NCI Thesaurus)

By disrupting fungal cell membrane synthesis and integrity, parconazole alters fungal cell membrane permeability, promotes loss of essential intracellular components and eventually inhibits fungal cell growth.

(Parconazole, NCI Thesaurus)

It induces mitosis and affects cell membrane permeability, thereby facilitating protein transport.

(Phytohemagglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)

Targeting cellular membranes, perifosine modulates membrane permeability, membrane lipid composition, phospholipid metabolism, and mitogenic signal transduction, resulting in cell differentiation and inhibition of cell growth.

(Perifosine, NCI Thesaurus)

Subsequent lack of activation of guanylyl cyclase through nitric oxide results in decreased cyclic GMP levels, thereby inhibiting smooth muscle constriction of various tissues, decreasing capillary permeability and decreasing other histamine-activated allergic reactions.

(Phenyltoloxamine, NCI Thesaurus)