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Definition of Reabsorption

1. Noun. The organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation.

Definition of Reabsorption

1. n. The act or process of reabsorbing.

Definition of Reabsorption

1. Noun. (physics) The subsequent absorption of emitted radiation ¹

2. Noun. (physiology) The subsequent absorption of a secreted substance ¹

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Medical Definition of Reabsorption

1. 1. The act or process of absorbing again, as the selective absorption by the kidneys of substances (glucose, proteins, sodium, etc.) already secreted into the renal tubules and their return to the circulating blood. 2. Resorption. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Reabsorption

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"The mechanism(s) through which CT affects glucose and bicarbonate reabsorption are not evident. Several possibilities should be considered. ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1903)
"The defeated Austrian emperor was obliged to sign a treaty, whereby he agreed to withdraw all troops from the Tyrol, and to consent to its reabsorption by ..."

3. On the functional diseases of the renal, urinary and reproductive organs by Donald Campbell Black (1872)
"But to the point more immediately under consideration —the reabsorption, ... M. Gosselin is of those who believe in the reabsorption. ..."

4. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty Lectures. A Text-book by Theodor Billroth (1871)
"reabsorption. — Termination in Fibr,ous Tumora, in Cysts, in Suppuration, and Putrefaction. — Treatment. BY the action of a blunt object on the soft parts, ..."

5. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures by Theodor Billroth (1872)
"reabsorption.—Termination in Fibrous Tumors, in Cysts, in Suppuration, and Putrefaction.—Treatment. BY the action of a blunt object on the soft parts, ..."

6. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"reabsorption lahes place very rapidly. GENTLEMEN :—In one of my previous lectures, I spoke to you of sero-sanguineous effusion into the pleura, ..."

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