imbibition
Example Sentences
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I mean to tinct C in sand-heat to-morrow, And give him imbibition.
From The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
The glands secrete a yellowish viscid fluid, by *The distinction between true absorption and mere permeation, or imbibition, is by no means clearly understood: see Mller's 'Physiology,' Eng. translat.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
If it be summer, there should be a lump of ice in the crystal goblet; and the connoisseur will always hold it between him and the sunlight before imbibition, and ejaculate, "There's a picture!"
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
The fluid finds its way between the epithelial cells in the deeper layers, apparently being taken into some of the superficial cells by imbibition.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
Theories are put forward, most learned theories, introducing capillary action, osmosis and cellular imbibition, to explain why the caulicle ascends and the radical descends.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
