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dusk(2) (iou) and absorptive (medicine)


dusk(2) (iou)



dusk verb. Now chiefly poet.
[Old English doxian, formed as DUSK adjective & noun Metathesized or re-formed in Middle English.]
verb intrans. Become dusk or dim; grow dark; be dusky. OE.
Tennyson Little breezes dusk and shiver. G. Gissing When it began to dusk..supper was prepared.
verb trans. Make dusky; darken, dim, obscure. LME.
fig.: Ld Berners Vnderstandyng, which is dusked in errours.

absorptive (medicine)


absorptive -->
absorbent


1. Anything which absorbs. "The ocean, itself a bad absorbent of heat." (Darwin)

2. <medicine> Any substance which absorbs and neutralizes acid fluid in the stomach and bowels, as magnesia, chalk, etc.; also a substance e. G, iodine) which acts on the absorbent vessels so as to reduce enlarged and indurated parts.

3. <physiology> The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.

Source: Websters Dictionary