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Resorption
(redirected from osteoclastic 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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With the decline in estrogen levels, osteoclastic and osteoblastic activity increase, but excess osteoclastic resorption occurs, causing a net bone loss of up to 2 to 3 percent per year for approximately 5 years.
Normal Bone Growth Development and Maintenance by Ricky Hussey / Health, general community
[1] In the lytic phase, the oval window can appear to be too wide on computed tomography (CT) as a result of the osteoclastic resorption of its margins (figure).
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