reabsorb

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Synonyms for reabsorb

undergo resorption

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About 25 per cent of sodium is reabsorbed here --this is the key mechanism by which the body can produce urine that is more concentrated than body fluids.

A build up of intestinal gas can trigger abdominal distension, with some gas reabsorbed into the circulation and exhaled in your breath.

Using LMD, the matrix component is completely molten, while the solid component is preheated and reabsorbed in the melt.

When the sun is no longer shining and the device cools back down, the molecules are reabsorbed and the window appears transparent.

The goal is that the crystals will slip back into another area of the inner ear, where they can be reabsorbed, thus relieving BPPV.

In healthy, nondiabetic individuals, virtually all of the glucose filtered from the plasma by the kidneys is reabsorbed in the proximal tubule, with little to no glucose appearing in the urine.

Around the end of September many nutrients in the leaf are reabsorbed into the plant and a special layer of cork is laid down at the leaf base that snaps away to make way for next year's growth.

On Monday, Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Ed Monreal assured over 150 maintenance workers who were served termination notices last Friday that they would be reabsorbed to fill up utility jobs in other areas at Naia.

The glowing colours you see are always there within the leaves but are only seen as chlorophyll in them is reabsorbed.

If the glucose is not reabsorbed, it will be eliminated; therefore, the reduction of absorbed glucose will result in a lower rise in post prandial glucose and insulin release.

The majority of IB Asia's 33 employees will be reabsorbed by DBS.

Of course, not all the flavour compounds are reabsorbed, so decaf will never taste exactly like regular coffee.

Staff hoped she would give birth this month but it is believed she "reabsorbed the pregnancy" in the final stages - common in giant pandas.

There were hopes that a panda cub would be born last year when she became pregnant following insemination, but vets who closely monitored her believe she may have reabsorbed the foetus.