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
Most other mammals simply reabsorb it into their bodies if it goes unused in a given cycle.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
Where are we to find the means to abolish and reabsorb the evil?
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
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
It can also be reabsorbed, which in excess can cause jaundice, which is when a person’s skin and eyes become yellow.
From Salon ● Jan. 4, 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
She bobs back into the hallway, immediately reabsorbed in her phone.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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
Richard Zierdt of Maryland thinks his neighbors might well be in favor of reabsorbing the District of Columbia, but I think he overlooked a few things.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022
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
If being sliced in half is just an off week, creating and reabsorbing an anus dozens of times per day may not be such a big deal.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2021
To facilitate this evaporation and prevent the hay from reabsorbing it and becoming musty, the best of ventilation is necessary.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various
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