The shrinking of the protoplasm from the cell wall as a result of outward diffusion of water into a solution with a low diffusion pressure of water.
The contraction of a cell protoplasm by dehydration, where the surrounding cell wall becomes smaller.
Shrinking of bacterial protoplasm due to loss of water to a suspending fluid of high osmotic pressure.
A process occurring in bacteria and plants in which the protoplasm shrinks away from the rigid cell wall when the cell is placed in a ‘hypertonic solution. This is due to withdrawal of water from the cell by osmosis.
Shrinking of cytoplasm in a living cell caused by loss of water by osmosis.