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Definition of Resorbing
1. resorb [v] - See also: resorb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resorbing
Literary usage of Resorbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"The ovary was normal with a normal series of enlarging yolks and resorbing follicles.
It was apparent that the bird was in the midst of a normal ..."
2. Osteoporosis Research, Education and Health Promotion (1993)
"Although active vitamin D stimulates bone resorption by osteoclasts (bone-resorbing
cells), these cells do not have vitamin D receptors, and it is believed ..."
3. The Nutrition of Farm Animals by Henry Prentiss Armsby (1917)
"In the higher animals the extent of resorbing surface is greatly increased by
certain projections of the interior surface of the small intestine known as ..."
4. Manual of Vital Function Testing Methods and Their Interpretation by Wilfred Mason Barton (1917)
"kidney, that is to say, the water resorbing power of the tubules, and consequently,
its capacity to produce a urine of high molecular concentration. ..."
5. Manual of Vital Function Testing Methods and Their Interpretation by Wilfred Mason Barton (1917)
"The delayed elimination indicates a diminished reaction power of the kidney, the
diminished elimination a loss of water resorbing power, ..."
6. General Surgery by Eugen Fröhner (1906)
"In contrast to the bone-forming activity of the osteoblasts, there stands the
resorbing activity of the OSTEOCLASTS ; this is constantly present in normal ..."
7. Farm Foods: Or, the Rational Feeding of Farm Animals : from the Sixth by Emil Theodor von Wolff, Herbert Henry Cousins (1895)
"... or stored up in the body varies with the proportion of the different nutrients
which the animal is capable of resorbing under normal conditions. ..."
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