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What does resorptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or caused by resorption
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The increase in osteoclasis and the uncoupling of osteoblastic and osteoclastic activity resulted in an increase in resorptive surfaces.
Measuring the decrease in bone tracer content was not a feasible approach because the resorptive process removes mainly older bone, which contains little or no tracer.
In HPTH, bone formation rate is markedly elevated and increases in formative and resorptive markers seem to be of equivalent size.
This influence, along with the specialized receptors along the tubule, allows each tubular section a selective resorptive and secretory function.
The hyperplastic synovial tissue then assumes a position around the head of the condyle, further exposing the condyle to the substrates that create the resorptive phenomenon.

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