reabsorb's Usage Examples:

The blood under the skin which causes the discoloration of bruising should be totally reabsorbed by the body in three weeks or less.

Its origin is obscure, but in 741 it was sufficiently important for St Boniface to found a bishopric here, which was, however, after the martyrdom of the first bishop, Adolar, in 755, reabsorbed in that of Mainz.

If all goes well, the pregnancy tissue will be reabsorbed into the woman's body.

With small subdural hematomas, the blood may slowly be reabsorbed over several weeks without much damage.

"The pseudodeltidium is sometimes reabsorbed in the adult.

Meckel's diverticulum-A congenital abnormality of the digestive tract consisting of a small pouch off the wall of the small bowel that was not reabsorbed before birth.

The medication works by keeping serotonin from being reabsorbed back into a signal-sending cell.

reabsorbed progressively in the purchase of the national domains, this paper-money can never become redundant.

When the material in the bowel cannot move past the obstruction, the body reabsorbs large amounts of fluid and the abdomen becomes sore to the touch and swollen (distended).

In most cases, however, the pieces of calcium are reabsorbed by the body during the recovery process.

These wrinkle treatments last one to three years before the body reabsorbs the fat.

If it does not contact sperm, either from intercourse that happened before ovulation or in the 12-24 hours after ovulation, it will die and be reabsorbed into the uterine lining.

Taking magnesia alba, which he distinguished from limestone with which it had previously been confused, he showed that on being heated it lost weight owing to the escape of this fixed air (named carbonic acid by Lavoisier in 1781), and that the weight was regained when the calcined product was made to reabsorb the fixed air with which it had parted.

Synonyms:

absorb, resorb,

Antonyms:

emit, bore,