Re: internode and osmotic
Regarding "internode" the following entry in OED may be the answer. 2. Zool. and Anat. A slender part (as a bone, or a portion of the neural cord of an arthropod, or of the stem of a polyzoan) intervening between two nodes or joints; each bone of a finger or toe. 1722 QUINCY Lex. Physico-Med. (ed. 2) 2 Descending over the first Internode of the said Finger. 1744 PARSONS Muscular Motion i. 26 note in Phil. Trans. XLIII, That they divide them [muscular fibres] thus into Bladders at equal Internodes, we must deny. 1826 KIRBY & SP. Entomol. IV. xxxvii. 9 At the union of the [neural] chords..a knot or ganglion is usually formed, and an alternate succession of internodes and ganglions commonly follows to the end. 1870 ROLLESTON Anim. Life 73 The Polyzoary is plant~like, erect, calcareous, dividing dichotomously, the internodes articulating by flexible chitinous bands. 1885 F. WARNER Phys. Expression ix. 155 The individual bones of the fingers and thumb are termed 'internodes'. Best regards, Ulf Norrsell ************************************************************ FROM: Dr. Ulf Norrsell, Goeteborg, Sweden EMAIL: norrsell@physiol.gu.se TELEPHONE: +46_317733503 FACSIMILE: +46_317733505 POSTAL ADDRESS: Goeteborg University Department of Physiology P.O. Box 432 SE 40530 Goeteborg Sweden ************************************************************