Meaning & use
Resorb
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To absorb something again into the body or a system after it has been produced or released.
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As a tadpole matures into a frog, its tail is gradually resorbed.
The bone tissue begins to resorb when calcium demand rises elsewhere in the body.
A note on using this word
Common in biology and medicine, especially in descriptions of bone remodeling and developmental processes like tail loss in amphibians.
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