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After swimming in the ocean for several hours, swimmers notice that their fingers appeared to be very wrinkled. this is an indication that, relative to the fluid in human cells, seawater is

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I'd say it's hypertonic.

Hypertonic just means that the concentrations of solutes are greater in the exterior of a cell rather than in its interior.

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