verb
- absorbing again or taking back into the body or system
Usage: medical; biological
Examples
- The kidneys are resorbing excess water from the blood.
- Bone tissue is constantly resorbing and rebuilding itself.
- The body is resorbing the calcium from old bone cells.
- Doctors monitored how well her system was resorbing the medication.
- The plant roots are resorbing nutrients from the decomposing leaves.
- His body began resorbing the fluid that had accumulated in his lungs.