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The organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
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reabsorption
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Wikipedia
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In renal physiology , reabsorption or tubular reabsorption is the process by which the nephron removes water and solutes from the tubular fluid (pre-urine) and returns them to the circulating blood . It is called reabsorption (and not absorption ) both ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physics English) The subsequent absorption of emitted radiation 2 (context physiology English) The subsequent absorption of a secreted substance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reabsorption \Re`ab*sorp"tion\ (r[=e]`[a^]b*s[^o]rp"sh[u^]n), n. The act or process of reabsorbing.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation [syn: resorption ]
Usage examples of reabsorption.
Hindu cycles of destruction and rebirth, and seems especially to refer to the pralaya or cosmic catastrophes which lead to the dissolution and reabsorption of our world into the Eternal.
I have to take a dozen different drugs to prevent reabsorption of calcium from my bone, collapse of my circulatory system, fluid retention, all the bad stuff micro-gravity does to unedited Earth stock.
It promotes increased reabsorption of salt in the kidney tubules, keeps potassium ions from leaving the cells to an undue extent, and maintains the proper volume of water outside the cells.
These extracts, usually called pituitrin, encouraged the reabsorption of water and therefore diminished the volume of urine.