resorption
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My dentist said a molar needed to be yanked because of a cellular breakdown called resorption, and a periodontist in his office recommended a bone graft and probably an implant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026
In addition, young women showed significant increases in the bone resorption marker.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
The researchers tracked down distinct pockets of bone resorption activity as the cells 'morph' between actively resorbing osteoclasts and an intermediate cell state called osteomorphs, in real time.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Osteoporosis is a clinical manifestation of an imbalance between bone resorption and bone formation, resulting in weakened bones that easily fracture.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Small blisters, properly applied, have many times seemed to be the determining factor in stopping the increase in the fluid, or to have been the starting cause of the resorption of the exudate.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
