imbibition

Example Sentences

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But if all one's truth is derived by imbibition from the Church, the faculties for receiving truth are not only undeveloped but one's whole view of truth becomes distorted.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

The pellicle prevents imbibition, diffusion, and the consequent disintegration.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

No blood-vessels pass into these tissues; the cells derive their nourishment by the imbibition of the plasma of the blood exuded into the subjacent tissue.

From A Practical Physiology by Blaisdell, Albert F.

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

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