Associations to the word «Resorption»

Wiktionary

RESORPTION, noun. The act of resorbing.
RESORPTION, noun. The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
RESORPTION, noun. (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material

Dictionary definition

RESORPTION, noun. The organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats