Absorption

Usage examples of uptake.

The beans, massive, mottled spheres a little larger than his fist, were stored in open boxes, protected by their hard rinds, but they, too, showed both an abundance of ascorbic acid and a complete absence of anything that might block its uptake.

Perez had always been fast on the uptake and managed to beat Dunlop to the verbal draw.

Henry Heth, quicker on the uptake, figured out why: "They haven't been biting cartridges all day, not with these new brass ones, so they've no need to look as though they were in a blackface minstrel show.

This child, with pitous lamentacioun, Uptaken was, syngynge his song alway, And with honour of greet processioun They carien hym unto the nexte abbay.

Carbon monoxide was a simple molecule, yet in the human circulatory system it could block the uptake of oxygen in red blood cells, leading quickly to death.

It also served the purposes of a lymphatic system, transporting uptake nanos from thousands of tiny lymph nodes distributed along her arteries.

So even though I could uptake the information at around ten megabaud, that doesn't do me any good, because my eye muscles can only move about a hundredth that fast.

Diseases like myasthenia gravis which involve profound muscle weakness are often related to disturbances in neurotransmitter release, uptake, or clearance.

And then one day they get four hlessil wished on them by the Council, and the next evening Bugloss isn't very quick in the uptake for some reason, and suddenly these hlessil play a trick on him and bunk.

The sulfur cycle's in trouble, and that impacts your nitrogen uptake in hydroponics.