"However, they decline with age, and this leads to drier skin and loss of cell volume or 'turgor'.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Methods that involve detaching parts of the plant are destructive and survival studies rely on qualitative observation of physical symptoms of water deficit stress such as turgor loss, chlorosis, and other qualities that can vary greatly between specimens and are also sensitive to experimental conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [HappyNews - Top Stories] Reference

Because of the small size and the turgor under which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Lecture The Identification Of Genes Controlling Development In Flies And Fishes] Reference

These appendages are manipulated by muscle movement and turgor pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insecta (Aquatic)] Reference

They actually take some of the blood, they re-hydrate it, give it a little bit more turgor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2007] Reference

"Poor epithelial turgor, you know diveskin's only an expression, you weren't supposed to live in it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Starfish] Reference

TECTONIDIS: Well, usually in a kid, you look for sunken eyes and skin that doesn't come back, decreased skin turgor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2005] Reference

But in the afternoon, they would droop, lose turgor, and stop growing as the temperature outpaced the available water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunn et al. [2005] – 20th century tree growth in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit] Reference

TECHTONADISH: Well, usually in a kid, you look for sunken eyes and skin that doesn't come back, decreased skin turgor (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2005] Reference

"Wrinkles and skin sagging occur when skin loses collagen and the skin cell interior's ability to maintain 'turgor' decreases.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Root and stem xylem embolism, stomatal conductance, and leaf turgor in Acer grandidentatum populations along a soil moisture gradient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivorship Bias « Climate Audit] Reference

Host trees that are under stress, including either climate stress or stress from mechanical breakage, have reduced growth reserves, less pitch, and lower turgor pressure, and so are less able to resist spruce bark beetle attacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic] Reference

The effect of turgor pressure changes in the DC on OHC electromotility in a DC-OHC pair.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Water flow sieve tube boundary - estimating turgor implications phloem loading unloading.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Water flow sieve-tube boundary - estimating turgor implications phloem loading unloading.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference

Increase of turgor pressure in the DCs can elongate its process and reduces the curvature.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Increase in the turgor pressure of DCs also shifted OHC NLC to the negative voltage direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Loss of turgor can lead to loss of cellular firmness, and skin begins to sag and texture becomes uneven.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

While you are bent close to them to listen to their heart sounds, inspect their skin for JVD, color, turgor, and odor.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

These estimates of acceleration are approximately ten-fold slower than those characteristic of spore launches driven by turgor pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

New studies by Hepler and colleagues provide support for the idea that the pectin deposits are forced into the wall matrix by turgor pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

The DC was voltage-clamped at − 40 mV under the whole-cell configuration and its turgor pressure was altered through the patch pipette (Panel B).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT Extremities ♦ Assess the client's hands, arms, feet and legs for skin changes, clubbing, capillary filling and edema, skin mobility and turgor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

In addition, quantitative spectroscopic methods were used to identify the organic and inorganic osmolytes responsible for generating the turgor pressures that drive spore discharge.    From Wordnik.com.  [MicrobiologyBytes] Reference

• Look for signs of volume depletion: tachycardia, hypotension, orthostatics, skin turgor, MM appearance • Look for signs of anemia: conjunctiva or skin pallor, new heart murmur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The spectroscopic data show that high speed spore discharge mechanisms in fungi are powered by the same levels of turgor pressure that are characteristic of fungal hyphae and do not require any special mechanisms of osmolyte accumulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [MicrobiologyBytes] Reference

Information about water content enables us to analyse the loss of turgor in the leaves and the internal morphology of their cell layers, which in turn makes it possible to assess the level of development and to see how they are influenced by environmental factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Overall, success in observing the minutest details of the growing tip's cell wall weakening and thickening in predictable oscillations serves to revive interest in the role of turgor pressure, a biophysical property of plants examined in the 1960s by Jim Lockhart, also a UMass Amherst plant physiologist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

"luxury super cream with outstanding anti-ageing efficacy" to address this loss of collagen and turgor.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

(As one commenter at the latter site suggests, the primary issue for the hawks, it seems, is manly turgor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Count yourself lucky that I didn’t regale you with a scale of difficulty for venipuncture or an assessment of her tissue turgor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Which One SMELLS Like A President?] Reference

I grew up in forested mountains, and in the summer I’d often see treeline trees losing turgor, or with browning needles, despite temperatures far below 30°C, simply because it was dry up at the treeline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forward Modeling of Ring Widths « Climate Audit] Reference

It’s evapotranspiration rates that determine whether you get loss of leaf turgor, wilt, stem cavitation, twig & whole-tree dieback or not – and these are as much determined by temperature as by precipitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Survivorship Bias « Climate Audit] Reference