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 produces absorption.

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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