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EGOISM |
Self-absorption |
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INTAKE |
Absorption |
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UPTAKE |
Absorption |
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ABSORBITION |
Absorption. |
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EGOMANIA |
Total self-absorption |
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SORBEFACIENT |
Producing absorption. |
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OSMOSIS |
Process of absorption |
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CONCENTRATION |
High absorption of cordial, perhaps |
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ABORTION |
S&P excluded from absorption, leading to termination |
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PHOSPHORESCENCE |
Emission of light some time after absorption of radiation |
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BIBULOUSLY |
In a bibulous manner; with profuse imbibition or
absorption. |
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ABSTRACTION |
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present
objects. |
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ABSORPTION |
Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as,
absorption in some employment. |
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PORE |
One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable
membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc. |
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INDIGESTIBLE |
Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive
juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption. |
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MERGER |
An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another,
or of a minor offense in a greater. |
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CUTANEOUS |
Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting,
the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous
respiration. |
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RESOLVENT |
That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other
tumors; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused
products. |
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SATURATED |
Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in
solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated
solution of salt. |
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ABSORBENT |
The vessels by which the processes of absorption are
carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots
in plants. |
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UNABSORBABLE |
Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable
of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood;
as, the unabsorbable portion of food. |
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ASSIMILATION |
The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid
substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption,
whether in plants or animals. |
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NIRVANA |
...ils of wordly existence, as by annihilation
or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism. ... |
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SOLUTION |
... solvent; also, the product
reulting from such absorption. ... |
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DIFFUSION |
...ranes,
as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body.
Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the
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