resorption

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See also: Resorption and résorption

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resorption (countable and uncountable, plural resorptions)

  1. The act of resorbing.
  2. The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
  3. (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.

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