resorption
nounEtymology By surface analysis, resorb + -tion.
1
The act of resorbing.
2
The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
3
Medicine, Sciences The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.
- […] there has been recognition that porosity of the orbital roofs and cranial vault may arise due to a variety of different causes. These include rickets and scurvy, where it occurs due to different pathophysiological mechanisms[…]. In vitamin D deficiency, it arises as a result of deficient mineralization of the growing bone surface, in scurvy as a result of deposition of porous new bone and/or vascular inflammatory response; versus diploic hyperplasia coupled with resorption of overlying cortical bone in anemia.2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 30:
- Derived terms
- bioresorption, hyperresorption, hyporesorption