Ranger School official combats rumors about how women passed training. Critics have ripped the Army's Ranger School for months about its willingness to include female students for the first time, and even more so this week after the service announced that two women will graduate from the school Friday.
hypotonic (comparative more hypotonic, superlative most hypotonic) ( 1 of a solution) Having a lower osmotic pressure than another.
Hypotonic, hypertonic, and isotonic are relative terms. That is, they describe how one solution compares to another in terms of osmolarity. For instance, if the fluid inside a cell has a higher osmolarity, concentration of solute, than the surrounding fluid, the cell interior is hypertonic to the surrounding fluid, and the surrounding fluid is hypotonic to the cell interior.