reabsorption

1. 1.

   the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation

   Synonymsresorption

   Broaderorganic process

Other forms of reabsorption

plural

reabsorptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about reabsorption

What does reabsorption mean?

reabsorption means "the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation".

How many syllables are in reabsorption?

reabsorption has 5 syllables: re-ab-sorp-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for reabsorption?

Close synonyms include resorption. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is reabsorption a common word?

reabsorption is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.