单词 | resorption |
释义 | resorptionn. 1. The action or process of reabsorbing something; (Medicine and Biology) the breaking down and reabsorption of previously formed constituents of the body (as a developmental, physiological, or pathological process); an instance of this. Cf. resorb v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > [noun] > resorption, retention, or recruitment retentivea1398 retention?a1425 resorption1714 recruitment1948 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > resorption resorption1714 absorption1732 reabsorption1874 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > assimilation or absorption > [noun] > again resorption1714 remanation1765 resorbence1765 reabsorption1842 1714 W. Lynn Ess. towards Cure Small Pox 62 The secondary Fever..is caused by a Resorption..of the corrupt Humours. 1759 M. Flemyng Introd. Physiol. 231 Resorption is kept up here [in the small intestine]. 1799 tr. I. Kant Ess. & Treat. II. 438 Pantheism..and afterwards spinozism..are nearly allied to the very old system of emanation of all human souls out of the Deity (and their final resorption by him). 1827 Medico-chirurg. Rev. 6 333 Deep-seated abscesses, with resorption of pus. 1877 L. A. Duhring Pract. Treat. Dis. Skin 66 It may terminate either in resorption, suppuration, or hypertrophy. 1928 S. Moore & J. A. Key tr. Leriche & Policard Normal & Pathol. Physiol. of Bone iv. 71 When osteoclasts are present there is resorption. 2003 Sci. Amer. Mar. 49/1 Until late last year, all drugs approved for treating osteoporosis were considered antiresorptives, because they slow resorption. 2. Geology. The melting or solution in magma of a previously crystallized mineral. ΚΠ 1888 J. P. Iddings tr. H. Rosenbusch Microsc. Physiogr. Rock-making Minerals 12 The older secretions are therefore melted again, and if the process of resorption [Ger. Resorption] is interrupted..there result rounded grains in place of the sharp-edged crystals. 1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 362 The chemical alterations effected in the mineral by magmatic resorption are interesting. 1964 G. A. Joplin Petrogr. Austral. Igneous Rocks ii. 26 Xenocrysts commonly show some resorption or corona indicating that they have reacted with the magma. 1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 346 Enclaves in the granite are exclusively xenolithic, comprising angular blocks of the country rock with little evidence of resorption. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1714 |
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