resorbv.
/rᵻˈsɔːb/, /rᵻˈzɔːb/, U.S. /rəˈsɔrb/, /riˈsɔrb/, /rəˈzɔrb/, /riˈzɔrb/ 1.
a. transitive. To absorb again (literal and figurative); to reabsorb; (Medicine and Biology) to break down and reabsorb (previously formed constituents of the body).
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > absorb [verb (transitive)] > again
reimbibe1594
resorb1640
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secrete [verb (transitive)] > resorb
resorb1640
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > assimilate or absorb [verb (transitive)] > again
resup1632
resorb1640
reabsorb1720
reassimilate1747
1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Postscr. 20 Their..aspersions, which yet ye have a stomach to resorbe; to spew them out once againe.
1656 R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 119 These must unsay what they have said, and like venomous Beasts, resorp their own poyson.
1703 T. Gibson Anat. Humane Bodies Epitomized (ed. 6) vi. 584 Those excrements are resorbed by the veins.
1730 T. Short Diss. upon Tea 57 The Liquids..are neither exhaled nor resorbed by the Veins.
1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 190 The generation of air,..except what might be absorbed by quicksilver or resorbed by the substance itself.
1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 177 Human souls, which like sparks..were borne aloft, and then..were resorbed into the pit.
1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 1563 [The host] Drew seaward as with one wide wail of waves Resorbed with reluctation.
1890 Proc. Royal Soc. 47 116 If the nitrogen of the bacteria is derived from the plant itself, it will be quantitatively no gainer by resorbing it.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. ix. 181 The ‘imaginal buds’ of the insects are such. They grow at pupation and replace many of the organs of the larval body, which are resorbed.
1985 J. Merrill Late Settings i. 23 Would brattishness that ripe for ridicule ever be resorbed like baby fat?
2005 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A 102 14629/2 Inability to resorb bone leads to macrocephaly and severely impaired growth.
b. intransitive. Chiefly Medicine and Biology. To undergo resorption; to be resorbed.
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1873 Lancet 23 Aug. 269/2 The author has even seen full-formed tubercles resorb and disappear through cicatrisation.
1904 Ann. Ophthalmol. 13 373 Tension becomes normal; the hypopyon resorbs.
1929 Internat. Jrnl. Orthodontia, Oral Surg. & Radiogr. 15 593 That structure resorbs when functional stimuli are lost.
1933 Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 53 134 On the eleventh day of gestation two [rats] remained pregnant and one resorbed.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 52 The washed ink appeared to have resorbed into the lines from which it had leached.
2001 R. Martin et al. in G. M. Scortecci et al. Implants & Restorative Dentistry viii. 271/1 The sinus may also expand into the hard palate if its cancellous core resorbs.
2. transitive. Geology. Of magma: to melt or dissolve (a previously crystallized mineral).
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1896 Bull. Geol. Surv. Alabama No. 5 ii. 143 Certain paramorphs after it, which retain the biotite form, now are made up of grains of augite and magnetite, the biotite substance having been completely resorbed by the magma.
1902 National Geographic Mag. 13 286/1 Arriving near or at the surface..hornblende is no longer stable, and is gradually attacked and resorbed by the magma.
1934 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. London 90 331 The muscovite of the schist may have contributed to the felspar of the granite, but the liberated biotite could not have been resorbed by the magma.
2002 Jrnl. Petrol. 43 1825/2 In some pumice clasts, however, two to three feldspar populations occur with the presence of calcic anorthoclase to andesine phenocrysts, and the plagioclase phenocrysts are resorbed.
Derivatives
reˈsorbable adj. that may be resorbed.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > [adjective] > resorption
resorbing1661
resorbable1854
1854 G. E. Day tr. C. G. Lehmann Physiol. Chem. III. 265 We may..recognise matters which are resorbable through the blood-vessels, by the extreme rapidity by which they reappear in the urine.
1939 Plant Physiol. 14 113 Apart from the fact that reliable methods of estimating resorbable protein are still lacking, the ordinary fertilizer experiment..fails completely.
1994 Sci. News 28 May 345/1 Shells made of the same plastic polymer used in resorbable sutures.
reˈsorbed adj.
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1746 R. James Mod. Pract. Physic I. 317 Perhaps there may seem to be greater hopes when without any erosion of the viscera, the resorbed pus is discharged by stool.
1849 E. Lankester tr. M. J. Schleiden Princ. Sci. Bot. 524 Where the fluids are distributed by a vascular system..this happens also to the resorbed fluids.
1910 J. P. Buckley Mod. Dental Materia Medica ii. 315 (heading) Resorbed root.
1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 486 Inclusions within the Coso rhyolites contained resorbed oligoclase, quartz, and sanidine.
reˈsorbing adj. carrying out resorption; (also) undergoing resorption.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > [adjective] > resorption
resorbing1661
resorbable1854
1661 J. Gauden Στρατοστη λιτευτικον 18 There remaining for such sinners of the sin to death, such relapsing Swine, and resorbing Dogs, who pretending to have escaped the pollutions of the World, are returned to their mire and vomit.
1779 tr. A. von Haller First Lines Physiol. 498 The origins of the veins are from..the resorbing veins of the whole circumference.
1855 G. E. Day tr. K. G. Lehmann Physiol. Chem. (new ed.) II. 372 These resorbing organs..run through the whole intestinal canal.
1915 Biol. Bull. 28 156 The ovary was normal with a normal series of enlarging yolks and resorbing follicles.
1989 Brain 112 1020 Postcontrast CT scan showing a resorbing callosal haemorrhage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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