reabsorb
Americanverb (used with object)
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"They'll coax excess lymph fluid from your swollen tissues toward your lymph nodes, where the lymph can reabsorb," he says - adding lymph nodes are found in the armpits, neck and groin.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
It sets off a series of cellular events that move water channels to the cell surface, allowing the kidneys to reabsorb water and concentrate urine.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
The herbivorous marsupial can also reabsorb water from the colon and produce more concentrated urine to preserve hydration, or allow its body temperature to fluctuate with the environment in a process known as heterothermy.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
But the lining of the uterus in our species has become so thick that we cannot possibly reabsorb it every few weeks.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
The Thing, in philosophical uncommercial language, is still a No-thing, mostly semblance, and deception of the sight;—benign Oblivion incessantly gnawing at it, impatient till chaos to which it belongs do reabsorb it!—
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
It carries serotonin into the cell so the chemical can be reabsorbed and recycled.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Because the shrimp are so small, it takes only a minute to see the salt drawing moisture out of the shrimp, then dissolving on the surface into a concentrated brine, which then is reabsorbed.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
Instead the impinging electrons release “virtual” photons, so called because they scarcely exist at all: these photons are reabsorbed by the quarks almost as fast as they are emitted.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2023
That number includes both embryos that are reabsorbed into the parent's body before anyone knows an egg has been fertilized and miscarriages that happen later in the pregnancy.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2022
She bobs back into the hallway, immediately reabsorbed in her phone.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Excess sugar consumption also causes the body to excrete excess calcium, instead of reabsorbing it in the kidney as the body normally would.
From Salon ● May 1, 2024
In reabsorbing Spirit, Boeing would be seeking to rescue and restructure a troubled but important partner that has been battered by years of losses and quality control problems.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
And even though they were receiving fluids, their bodies were not reabsorbing electrolytes And it turned out, that of the dozen or so patients that came in...
From Scientific American ● Nov. 11, 2021
A year later, they started reabsorbing their eggs.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2010
For it materialises the reality when it conceives it as manifold: but it can conceive it as such only by unifying it, and therefore by dematerialising it and reabsorbing it into its own spiritual substance.
From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile
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