reabsorption
The cabbage will reabsorb this salty brine during the fermentation.
Blood will stagnate in the muscle tissue and often does not reabsorb back into the system.
When trees are cut down, some sub-soils re-absorb moisture and expand, causing structural damage to property.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Physical & chemical processes
absorbable
absorptive
absorptive capacity
absorptivity
acidification
endothermic reaction
excitability
excitation
excite
exergonic
exothermic
exothermic reaction
impregnate
re-emit
react
reboil
recondense
redox
scald
vaporize

Examples of reabsorb

reabsorb
Very rapid, active transepithelial fluid absorption occurs in kidney proximal tubule, where the majority of fluid filtered by the glomerulus is reabsorbed.
In these patients, the enterohepatic circulation, which reabsorbs about 90% of bile acids, is also deranged and the bile acid pool is severely depleted.
Approximately 90% of these fluids are reabsorbed by the intestine, principally in the small intestine by the jejunum, which has the largest surface area.
In general, newborns and infants have a diminished ability to excrete ions as well as an impaired ability to reabsorb them.
These cells were presumably reabsorbed and no later stages were seen.
However, the questions must again be asked : on what terms are people being reabsorbed, and are the conditions that led to the war being recreated?
Some commercial pieces were reabsorbed into folklore, others rejected, altered or incorrectly remembered.
Lithocholic acid is the most hydrophobic and cytotoxic bile acid and not reabsorbed in large amounts.
Self-absorption broadening refers to a phenomenon in which omitted photons are reabsorbed partly during their passage through the plasma.
The protein filtered by the glomerulus is reabsorbed, through proximal tubular epithelial cells by endocytosis and lysosomal degradation.
The emission from fast ions moving along this plane in the transverse direction contributes to the line center and is strongly reabsorbed as well as those from the bulk ions.
This cycle is interrupted by the parasites, which take up bile bound lead and thus reduce the available amount of lead that could be reabsorbed by the fish host.
Primary and secondary bile acids are 98-99% reabsorbed in the ileum returning to the liver via the portal circulation.
On the other hand, successful thoroughbass models (a particularly easily observable case being those providing a regle de l'octave) became reabsorbed into the harmonic 'vocabulary' of composers.
Vortex sheets in the gaps between them and the caudal fin may largely be reabsorbed into the caudal-fin boundary layer, without any significant increase in wasted wake energy.
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