Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Promoting absorption. Used of a medicine or agent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Promoting absorption.
- noun In medicine, that which produces or promotes absorption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Producing absorption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Producing
absorption . - noun A
medicine or substance that producesabsorption .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective inducing or promoting absorption
Etymologies
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Latin sorbere to suck in, absorb + faciens, p.pr. of facere to make.
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