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Word: absorbent
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- absorbing liquids; swallowing; absorptive.
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Noun:
- Anything which absorbs.
- medicine Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance, e.g., iodine, which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.
- physiology|pluralized 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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