imbibition
Example Sentences
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If, now, we presuppose absorption or even imbibition on the part of the skin, a swelling of the nerve-ends is comprehensible, as the imbibed fluid reaches them.
From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
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
If it be summer, there should be a lump of ice in the crystal goblet; and the connoisseur will always hold it between him and the sunlight before imbibition, and ejaculate, "There's a picture!"
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
I proceeded with the imbibition of Father McPhilpin's excellent tea.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
Theories are put forward, most learned theories, introducing capillary action, osmosis and cellular imbibition, to explain why the caulicle ascends and the radical descends.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
