a. - Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.
n. - Anything which absorbs.
n. - 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.
n. - The vessels by which the processes of absorption are carried on, as the lymphatics in animals, the extremities of the roots in plants.