resorption

[ ri-sawrp-shuhn, -zawrp- ]
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noun
  1. the destruction, disappearance, or dissolution of a tissue or part by biochemical activity, as the loss of bone or of tooth dentin.

  2. Also called re·ab·sorp·tion [ree-ab-sawrp-shuhn, -zawrp-] /ˌri æbˈsɔrp ʃən, -ˈzɔrp-/ . the selective uptake into the bloodstream of substances previously filtered out of the blood.

Origin of resorption

1
First recorded in 1810–20; re- + (ab)sorption; compare French résorption

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How to use resorption in a sentence

  • In some cases want of milk in the breasts seems to be due to its reabsorption.

    The Physical Life of Woman: | Dr. George H Napheys
  • Surely they are the wise who seek Nirvana; who insist not upon themselves, but wait absorption —reabsorption—into the infinite.

    A Florida Sketch-Book | Bradford Torrey
  • Secretions in ductless and sac filling glands are for reabsorption.

    The White Spark | Orville Livingston Leach
  • Italy, on the other hand, had for her task the reabsorption of a bygone culture.

    Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) | John Addington Symonds
  • The conviction of the final reabsorption into deity, conditions also the belief in the emanation of the ego from deity.

    Akbar, Emperor of India | Richard von Garbe

British Dictionary definitions for resorption

resorption

/ (rɪˈsɔːpʃən) /


noun
  1. the process of resorbing or the state of being resorbed

  2. geology the partial or complete remelting or dissolution of a mineral by magma, resulting from changes in temperature, pressure, or magma composition

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