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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The movement of a chemical substance across a cell membrane without expenditure of energy by the cell, as in diffusion.
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- noun transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required
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