Word Meanings - REABSORB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To absorb again; to draw in, or imbibe, again what has been effused, extravasated, or thrown off; to swallow up again; as, to reabsorb chyle, lymph, etc.; -- used esp. of fluids.

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• CHYLE
  A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.
• LYMPH
  An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• LYMPHOGENIC
  Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• IMBIBE
  1. To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture. 2. To receive or absorb into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. 3. To saturate; to
• EXTRAVASATE
  To force or let out of the proper vessels or arteries, as blood.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• LYMPHATIC
  pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph. 2. Madly enthusiastic; frantic. " Lymphatic rapture. " Sir T. Herbert. Etym: Lymphatic gland , one of the solid glandlike bodies connected with the lymphatics or the lacteals; -- called
• EXTRAVASATION
  The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.
• LYMPHOMA
  A tumor having a structure resembling that of a lymphatic gland; -- called also lymphadenoma. Malignant lymphoma, a fatal disease characterized by the formation in various parts of the body of new growths resembling lymphatic glands in structure.
• LYMPHY
  Containing, or like, lymph.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• ENDOLYMPH
  The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
• ENCHYLEMMA
  The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of the nucleus are imbedded.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.