reabsorb
Americanverb (used with object)
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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 caffeine-free water is then returned to the beans to reabsorb the coffee flavors and aromas.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
It will, however, reabsorb some moisture from the air, when exposed to it.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
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
Many midbody remnants are reabsorbed by one of the daughter cells that shed them, but those that touch down on a distant surface, like a lunar lander, may instead be absorbed by a third cell.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2023
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
When leaves or branches fall, the carbon and nitrogen in the debris are rapidly reabsorbed by the hyperefficient root systems of tropical plants.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
Yet, too sensitive to weep at anybody, even at an inkbeast, she stood up, went to the window and, while reabsorbing her tears, looked, or affected to look, at a lean stripe of blue sky.
From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar
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