to resorb

Examples

• All

• Trabecular bone gradually replaces the callus along the stress lines, and the "extra" callus is resorbed.

  Academic text (2002)

• However, the ideal would be for the scaffold to be resorbed but simultaneously replaced by bone.

  Blog text (19)

• So the idea is that you could resorb the endometrium and save energy.

• But a gene turns on and resorbs the tail gets rid of it.

• When bone matrix is resorbed, these cross-links are quantitatively excreted in the urine and therefore represent specific markers.

  Academic text (1992)

• The collagen functions to smoothly deliver and evenly disperse the PMMA microspheres and is eventually resorbed.

  Academic text (2012)

• Instead, in the first stage of sweating, the glands secrete salt, which pulls water along by osmosis; in the second stage, the glands resorb some of the secreted salt.

  Academic text (1991)

• During the healing process, the body will naturally resorb the damaged tissue over time.

• In healthy bone remodeling, old bone is resorbed and replaced with new bone by specialized cells.

• When the drug is administered, it is gradually resorbed into the bloodstream and utilized by the body.

Synonyms

R

to reabsorb

vsto resorb

3 5.8

To take water or nutrients back into a living thing after they were lost

is the action by tissues or cells that take material back

R

to reassimilate

vsto resorb

• Specialized

7.3

To take substances like nutrients back into a living thing

is narrower for tissues or cells recovering material rather than whole-organism incorporation

Antonyms

R

to release

∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

E

to excrete

• NSFW

6 7.0

To remove waste from the body through urine, sweat or breath

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology