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imbibition
[im″bĭ-bish´un]absorption of a liquid.
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im·bi·bi·tion
(im'bi-bish'ŭn),1. Absorption of fluid by a solid body without resultant chemical change in either.
2. Taking up of water by a gel, thereby increasing its size.
[L. im-bibo, to drink in (in + bibo)]
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im·bi·bi·tion
(im'bi-bish'ŭn)1. Absorption of fluid by a solid body without resultant chemical change in either.
2. Taking up of water by a gel.
[L. im-bibo, to drink in (in + bibo)]
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imbibition
The taking up of fluid as by absorption into a gel.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
imbibition
the uptake of water by, for example, the dry seed, that causes GERMINATION to start. The process is due, not to SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY through a membrane, but rather to the property of water ADSORPTION by colloidal particles such as cellulose, pectin and cytoplasmic proteins, using chemical and electrostatic attraction.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
im·bi·bi·tion
(im'bi-bish'ŭn)1. Absorption of fluid by a solid body without resultant chemical change in either.
2. Taking up of water by a gel.
[L. im-bibo, to drink in (in + bibo)]
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