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the mental state of being preoccupied by something

(chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid

(physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium; "the absorption of photons by atoms or molecules"

the mental state of being preoccupied by something

(chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid

(physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium; "the absorption of photons by atoms or molecules"

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.

An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

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.

An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

The taking in or incorporation of gaseous or liquid substances, light, or heat. It includes the metabolic absorption of exogenous nutrients, chemicals, and drugs into microorganisms, tissues, and organs.

The process or act of taking in, imbibing, or swal owing up; the mental state of being entirely occupied with.

1. The taking up of gases by liquid or solid substances, or of liquids by solids. 2. The taking into the tissues, through the medium of the lymphatics or blood-vessels, of any material in suitable form. 3. The extinction of light or any of its component rays by black or colored objects. 4. The arrest of the rays of radiant heat, the temperature of the absorbing body being slowly raised. 5. The neutralization of an acid.

The act of absorbing: entire occupation of mind.

The act of absorbing; the condition of being absorbed.

Absorptive.

The act of absorbing; the state of being absorbed; entire occupation of mind. Taking up of matter by the absorbent vessels. The conversion of a gaseous fluid into a liquid or solid by union with another substance.

The intussusception of fluid by living cells or tissues; the passage of nutritive material through living cells.

The function of absorbent vessels, by virtue of which they take up substances from without or within the body. Two great divisions have been made of this function. 1. External absorption, or the absorption of composition, which obtains, from without the organs, the materials intended for their composition; and, 2. Internal absorption, or the absorption of decomposition, which takes up from the organs the materials that have to be replaced by the exhalants. By external absorption is meant not only that which takes place at the external surface of the body, but also that of the mucous membranes of the digestive and respiratory passages. Hence, again, the division of external absorption into cutaneous-resorp'tio cuta'nea seu cutis, inhala'tio cutis,-intestinal or digestive, and pulmonary or respiratory. Internal absorption is also subdivided into, 1. Molecular or interstitial, nutritive, organic, or decomposing, which takes up from each organ the materials that constitute it, so that the decomposition is always in equilibrio with the deposition. 2. The absorption of recrementitial secreted fluids, such as the fluid of serous membranes, synovia, &c. As these are constantly exhaled on surfaces which have no external outlet, they would augment indefinitely, if absorption did not remove them in the same proportion as that in which they are deposited. 3. The absorption of a part of the excrementitial fluids, as they pass over the excretory passages. Absorption does not effect the decomposition of the body immediately. It merely prepares the fluid which has to be eliminated by the secretory organs. The great agents of external absorption are the veins and chyliferous vessels; of internal absorption, probably the lymphatics. In the chyliferous vessels and lymphatics the fluid is always found to possess the same general properties. In them, therefore, an action of elaboration or selection must have taken place. The veins, on the other hand, seem to exert no selection. Any fluid, possessing the necessary tenuity, passes through the coats of the vessel readily by imbibition, and proceeds along with the torrent of the circulation. Watery fluids in this manner enter the blood when they are taken into the stomach. Substances that require digestion, on the other hand, must pass through the chyliferous vessels and thoracic duct.

The act of taking up by suction.

In general the act or process of absorbing; the imbibition of nutritive or other material by a living organism; the process of taking up waste or foreign material into the general circulation.

The method of extracting certain groups of agglutinins from a serum by adding to it the bacilli which will agglutinate with the other agglutinins in it. thus leaving the special agglutinating groups only which act on one type of bacilli.

n. Act or process of being absorbed and made to disappear by mechanical means; —process or act of being made passively to disappear in some other substance, through molecular or other invisible means ; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, &c, Also, in living organisms, through, the vital processes of nutrition and , growth ;—entire engrossment or occupation of mind.

The act of swallowing up.