Resorption

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of resorbing.
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  • n. The act of resorbing
  • n. The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.
  • n. The redissolving wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed. The dissolved material may again solidify, giving rise to a mass of small crystals, usually of a different kind.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Retrogressive absorption; specifically, a physiological process by which a part or organ, having advanced to a certain state of development, disappears as such by the absorption of its substance into that of a part or organ which replaces it.
  • n. Absorption of some product of the organism, as a tissue, exudate, or secretion.
  • n. In petrography, the melting of a phenocryst in a porphyritic rock and its recrystallization in situ as other minerals. This results in the formation of a resorption border in many cases about the more or less resorbed phenocryst, as when hornblende is surrounded by a black border composed of pyroxene and magnetite.
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  • n. the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    biological process    organic process   
    Cross Reference
    lacunar resorption of bone   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    reabsorption   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fibrinolysis    mineralization    invigoration    atherogenesis    overdevelopment   
     
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