absorb
verb (used with object)
to suck up or drink in (a liquid); soak up.
unabsorbable
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a word derived from
absorb.
Example Sentences
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When suppuration occurs in connection with buried sutures of unabsorbable materials, such as silk, silkworm gut, or silver wire, it is apt to persist till the foreign material is cast off or removed.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Presence of a Foreign Body.—When an aseptic foreign body is present in the tissues, e.g. a piece of unabsorbable chromicised catgut, the healing process may be modified.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
