resorption
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See also: Resorption and résorption
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
resorption (countable and uncountable, plural resorptions)
- The act of resorbing.
- The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
- (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.
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Translations[edit]
the loss and reassimilation of bone material
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