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What does hydrophilic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (physics) Having an affinity for water; able to absorb, or be wetted by water; water-loving.
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However, scientists argue about whether hydrophobic or hydrophilic interactions are dominant.
This reduction of quercetin potentially gives QC the same anticancer effects of quercetin with the hydrophilic effect of a chalcone.
In our present paper, we added a spherical nanoparticle interacting attractively with the hydrophilic segments of amphiphilic molecules.
Soft hydrophilic contact lenses, made of flexible plastic are larger and cover the entire cornea.
Since the phosphate group is water soluble, this part of the molecule tends to be hydrophilic.
Witte et al. determined that subtoxic concentrations of membrane-damaging compounds enhanced the cytotoxicity of hydrophilic xenobiotics.

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