Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inducing or causing absorption.
- noun A medicine or agent that induces absorption.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing absorption.
- noun Any substance causing absorption, as of a swelling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective inducing or promoting absorption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Inducing or increasing
absorption (of a drug). - noun medicine Any such
medicine that inducesabsorption .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inducing or promoting absorption
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[absorbe(nt) + –facient.]
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absorb + -facient
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