absorptional

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

absorption +‎ -al

Adjective[edit]

absorptional (not comparable)

  1. Relating to absorption.
    • 1885, John Richard Wardell, Contributions to pathology and the practice of medicine:
      It is, too, in this manner explicable why great bodily exertion is inimical to corpulence; the waste exceeds the amount of renovating materials supplied by the ingesta; hence, increased activity of absorptional function []

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