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the absorptive
adjective
Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe.
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Reduced absorption of Fe and Zn might have resulted from downregulation of the absorptive system.
Some of these diseases reduce the absorptive function of the bowel.
But the Winter Olympic sports remain a tougher sell even to the absorptive Indian bureaucracy.
The absorptive power of local democracy is great, but it is not infinite.
For Wall, as Fried admits, the absorptive and the theatrical are both "modes of performance": the subjects are always, in a sense, performing for the camera.
After a decade of field and greenhouse tests, a variety of techniques harnessing the absorptive power of plants' roots appear poised for a much expanded role.
But most language professionals maintain that the legislation is too extreme and that it underestimates the absorptive capacity of Brazilian Portuguese.
In one respect its reliance on the absorptive qualities of plastics—it is similar to the design used by Dr Lewis.
Dr. Cao said the device they built was relatively simple, using silicon as the absorptive medium and a couple of "bad" mirrors.
On the surface of each columnar cell there are about 600 very fine projections called microvilli that further increase the absorptive area of each villus.
Solubility in water is necessary in order for fat to be transferred from the lumen of the intestine to the absorptive cells.
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