resorption

The act or process of resorbing.

In petrography, the melting of a phenocryst in a porphyritic rock and its recrystallization in situ as other minerals. This results in the formation of a resorption border in many cases about the more or less resorbed phenocryst, as when hornblende is surrounded by a black border composed of pyroxene and magnetite.

Retrogressive absorption; specifically, a physiological process by which a part or organ, having advanced to a certain state of development, disappears as such by the absorption of its substance into that of a part or organ which replaces it.

Absorption of some product of the organism, as a tissue, exudate, or secretion.

The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again; reabsorption.

The redissolving wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed. The dissolved material may again solidify, giving rise to a mass of small crystals, usually of a different kind.

The act of resorbing

The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material

the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation