imbibition

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The amoeba either takes its food directly by imbibition of matter floating in the water, or by pressing into its protoplasmic body solid particles with which it comes in contact.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

But the most remarkable and interesting case of this kind of action is the imbibition of oxygen by metallic platinum.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von

He proposes to support the strength by placing the patient in a tepid bath of nutritious liquids, that might enter by cutaneous imbibition, but does not recommend this.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

If, now, we presuppose absorption or even imbibition on the part of the skin, a swelling of the nerve-ends is comprehensible, as the imbibed fluid reaches them.

From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.

The formation of the elementary shapes of an organism is but a crystallization of substances capable of imbibition.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane