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Definition of Absorbents
1. absorbent [n] - See also: absorbent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Absorbents
Literary usage of Absorbents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"Provisional Report on the Communication between the Arteries and absorbents on
the part of the London Committee. By Dr. HODGKIN. The Committee had added to ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"The absorbents of Birds, as of Reptiles, differ from those of Mammals in having
... With respect to the disposition of the absorbents, they do not form in ..."
3. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"CHAPTER XIV TESTING absorbents AND GAS MASKS One of the first necessities in ...
TESTING OP absorbents 1 absorbents should be tested for moisture, hardness, ..."
4. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Of the absorbents. It would appear from experiments that the absorbents do absorb
after ... It is most likely that every cavity of the body has absorbents, ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1827)
"The operation is not new; but we understand the case was very ably managed by Mr.
White. 32. CAUSTIC IK INFLAMMATION OF THE absorbents. ..."
6. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"The absorbents, from the rectum and colon of the left side, pass into their proper
glands, or sometimes into the lumbar glands, and join the thoracic duct ..."
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