(n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
(n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
(n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
(n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(3) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(4) At 48 h after pretreatment, a differential effect on the absorption of sulfanilamide and L-tryptophan was observed in in situ recirculation experiments.
(5) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(6) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
(7) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(8) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(9) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
(10) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
(11) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
(12) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(13) Differential absorption experiments showed that LG-1 contained a mixture of specific and cross-reacting antibodies.
(14) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
(15) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
(16) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(17) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
(18) It was found that the initial rate of [14C]oxalate absorption is rapid (6.5 per cent per min), and that after 5 min the rate of absorption decreases to about 0.6 per cent per min.
(19) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(20) The mechanisms responsible for changes in absorption in vitro are unknown.
Imbibing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbibe
Example Sentences:
(1) E. caudatum imbibed choline very rapidly; this was immediately and exclusively converted into phosphatidylcholine which was shown by radioautography after 10 min to be distributed throughout the cell membranes.
(2) And we’re getting more opportunities to consider the batshit curriculum that people such as Steve Bannon have imbibed on their way to the administration of a superpower.
(3) Many social drinkers also imbibe at well above the safe levels, their health silently damaged.
(4) Depolymerization of the chondromucoprotein and decreases in the ability of a disk to imbibe fluid, is, in effect, a "chemical decompression" of the nucleur pulposus.
(5) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(6) Both patients were heavy imbibers of alcohol and both had swallowed less paracetamol that that generally regarded as a lethal dose.
(7) A breakdown of the endothelium through disease or injury causes a marked increase in corneal thickness as the stroma imbibes fluid from the aqueous humor in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(8) Such an ability may provide a protective function to the motor neuron by restricting the intraneuronal transport of materials imbibed by the axon terminals outside the CNS.
(9) Antibodies to herpes simplex viral-induced antigens (HSVIA) were assayed by an indirect immunofluorescent technique in 93 regular cigarette smokers, 75 of whom also imbibed alcoholic beverages.
(10) Additionally, expression of Em genes can be repeated during early germination, if imbibing embryos are subjected to osmotic stress.
(11) Although a number of studies have demonstrated lower blood pressure in individuals ingesting less than two drinks per day compared with abstainers or heavy alcohol imbibers, the evidence is not conclusive.
(12) When dormant oat seeds were imbibed at the non-permissive temperature of 30 degrees C, the concentration of phosphoenolpyruvate and of glycerate 3-phosphate, which are two inhibitors of phosphofructokinase 2, increased almost linearly during 30 h. By contrast, these metabolites increased only after a lag period of about 10 h in non-dormant seeds imbibed at the same temperature.
(13) The party elders gathered on the stage would have immediately imbibed what that roar meant.
(14) The rats imbibing morphine solution exhibited a withdrawal syndrome, low level of initial nociception and received more electrocutaneous stimuli in the Vogel test.
(15) In epidemiological studies the incidence of cirrhosis can be correlated with the duration and amount of alcohol imbibed.
(16) Instead of hectoring the middle classes – who do their binge drinking at home – we might subconsciously induce them to imbibe less just by obliging importers to name popular varietal wines after parts of the liver and pancreas.
(17) After 2 weeks of free choice, hypothalamic, but not serum Prl and LH levels, were significantly increased in EtOH-imbibing groups compared to controls.
(18) Tony Blair added his characteristic descant, adding " We have imbibed deeply of the Olympic spirit … in throwing timidity to the winds we have rediscovered a spirit that is our own ".
(19) Seeds imbibed in benzyladenine, chloramphenicol, and in cycloheximide show retarded growth and slower starch degradation and enzyme production than the controls.
(20) They imbibe water into intervertebral disc and apophyseal joint articular cartilage, endowing the tissues with elasticity and compressibility.