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Definition of Resorptive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resorptive
Literary usage of Resorptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"EXAMINATION OF THE resorptive POWER OF THE STOMACH. To this end a capsule containing
0.2 gram of potassium iodide is given to the patient shortly before a ..."
2. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1868)
"In all cases the interior of the resorptive organs may be seen filled with fat
molecules which, travelling through them, enter the plexus and may be traced ..."
3. A Text-book of Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods by Leonard Napoleon Boston (1905)
"resorptive POWER OF THE STOMACH. The resorptive power of the stomach is best
ascertained in the following manner: Just prior to the taking of a full meal a ..."
4. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1908)
"This "resorptive action'' I believe takes place by electrolytic action on the
hyperplastic subendothelial cells, which are less highly organized, ..."
5. The Formation of Poisons by Micro-organisms by Greene Vardiman Black (1884)
"(6) Absorptive or resorptive. (c) Nutritive or Assimilative. Primary digestion
is the ordinary method by which food is fitted for reception by the organism. ..."
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