RESORPTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resorption mean? 

• RESORPTION (noun)
  The noun RESORPTION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RESORPTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESORPTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

reabsorption; resorption

Hypernyms ("resorption" is a kind of...):

biological process; organic process (a process occurring in living organisms)

Derivation:

resorb (undergo resorption)

 Context examples 

This may cause osteoclast apoptosis and, eventually, inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption.

(Clodronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

By inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, ibandronic acid increases bone mineral density, decreases bone remodeling and turnover, as well as reduces bone pain.

(Ibandronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

By preventing osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, incadronic acid prevents bone destruction.

(Incadronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in osteoclastic bone resorption.

(CTSK Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes cathepsin K protein, plays a role in the regulation of both proteolysis and osteoclastic bone resorption.

(CTSK wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

In bone, it decreases bone resorption and bone turnover and increases bone mineral density.

(Acolbifene hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent increases bone mineral density, decreases bone remodeling, inhibits osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, and reduces metastases-related and corticosteroid-related bone pain.

(Ibandronate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

By preventing osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, neridronic acid decreases bone turnover rate, stabilizes the bone matrix and reduces hypercalcemia.

(Neridronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

The continuous turnover of bone matrix and mineral that involves first, an increase in bone resorption (osteoclastic activity) and later, reactive bone formation (osteoblastic activity).

(Innate Bone Remodeling, NCI Thesaurus)

A second generation bisphosphonate and synthetic analog of pyrophosphate with anti-bone-resorption activity.

(Alendronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)