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What does resorption mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of resorbing.
  2. The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
  3. (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material
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In the distal tubule and collecting duct of the kidney, vasopressin stimulates water resorption so that concentrated urine is produced.
The larger the nitrogen resorption efficiency is, the more nitrogen is reutilized by the plant.
They propose that in the gas retention regime, resorption of water greatly speeds up welding by reducing the viscosity of the glass.
Bone remodeling, which repairs damaged bone, is a sequential process in which bone resorption precedes bone formation.
Alveolar bone resorption in both groups 1 and 2 was observed, radiographically and histopathologically.
Bone mineral density is determined by the homeostasis between osteoblastic bone formation and osteoclastic bone resorption.

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