Sentence examples for resorb from inspiring English sources

A female lizard suffering through a drought year or coping with loss of her tail may resorb maturing egg follicles in the ovary or forego egg development altogether during that year.

Osteoclasts are usually large multinucleated cells that, working from bone surfaces, resorb bone by direct chemical and enzymatic attack.

Osteocytes, once thought of as resting cells, are now recognized to be metabolically active and to possess, at least in latent form, the ability to resorb and re-form bone on their lacunar walls.

However, he said there is a possibility that the mother could resorb or miscarry the fetus.

In particular, desert rodents have long loops of Henle and are able to resorb much water and to excrete a highly concentrated urine.

"If you produce more cerebrospinal fluid, or resorb less, you increase the pressure in your skull.

For example, the notochord, nerve cord, and most of the tail are generally resorbed within one day.

When two plates diverge, magma from the mantle wells up and cools, forming new crust; when convergence occurs, one plate descends i.e., is subducted below the other and crust is resorbed into the mantle.

The sequence of events during molting can be divided into four main stages: (1) Proecdysis, or premolt, is the period during which calcium is resorbed from the old exoskeleton into the blood.

The uterine lining may be shed with the fetal membranes as "afterbirth" (a condition called deciduate) or may be resorbed by the female (nondeciduate).

The lumen, or tubule cavity, contains the tails of many sperm (the heads of which are embedded in Sertoli cells), free sperm, and fluid that is probably resorbed.