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Resorption
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resorption [rē′sȯrp·shən]
(petrology)
The process by which a magma redissolves previously crystallized minerals.
(physics)
Absorption or, less commonly, adsorption of material by a body or system from which the material was previously released.

Resorption 

(1) In physiology, repeated assimilation; the same as absorption.

(2) In pathology and pathological physiology, the same as resolution. In cases of leukoses, for example, resorption of the bone develops very intensively and is accompanied by rarefaction and the complete resolution of the bony frame.



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This excess volume has the potential to overwhelm the subcutaneous tissue resorptive capacity, generating seromas.
The resorptive phase is usually the most painful, with the presentation resembling acute sepsis with severe pain, loss of motion and tenderness of the rotator cuff on palpation.
At the same time, there is intensification of the normal resorptive activity along the internal surface of the outer table and external surface of the inner table.
 
 
 
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