sorb-, sorpt- +

1. To swallow up, to include or to take a thing into the loss of its separate existence; to incorporate.
2. To be swallowed up, or comprised in, so as to no longer exist separately.
3. To engross, or to completely engage the attention or faculties.
4. To take up or to receive (imponderable agents) by chemical or molecular action.
5. To assume the burden of (costs, expenses, etc.).
6. To take in (a shock, jolt, etc.) with little or no recoil or reaction.
7. To take in and not to reflect (light rays are absorbed by black surfaces, cork ceilings absorb sound).

The state or quality of being absorbable; capable of being absorbed.

A biologically absorbable powder prepared from cornstarch by introducing certain ether linkages, and also containing two percent magnesium oxide; used as a surgeon's glove lubricant.

A sterile, non-antigenic, water-insoluble gelatin film prepared from a gelatin-formaldehyde; used both as a protective and as a temporary supportive structure in surgical membrane repair.

A sterile, absorbable, water-insoluble gelatin base sponge, used to control capillary bleeding in surgical operations.

It is left in situ and is absorbed by the patient in from four to six weeks.

A ligature composed of degradable material; such as, catgut, which can be absorbed by the tissues after enzymatic breakdown.

A ligature is a thread, wire, or cord used in surgery to close vessels or tie off ducts.

A sterile strand prepared from collagen derived from healthy mammals or from a synthetic polymer.

This type of suture is absorbed and therefore does not need to be removed.

The ability of a material or tissue to absorb radiation which depends on temperature and wavelength; expressed as the negative common logarithm of the transmittance (ratio of transmitted energy to incident energy).

1. Causing or taking in; sucking up and incorporating.
2. An agent that causes absorption or the taking up liquids by solids.

The quality of being absorbent; absorptiveness.

1. Any substance which absorbs fluids through its sensible or insensible porosity; applied in a special sense in medicine to such substances as chalk, magnesia, which absorb the acidity of the stomach.
2. Capable of absorbing moisture, light rays, etc.; a thing or substance that absorbs.

Cotton from which the natural wax has been removed, for use in surgical dressings and for other medicinal or cosmetic purposes.

1. A material or device that absorbs solar radiation.
2. The material that readily absorbs photons to generate charge carriers (free electrons or holes).

1. A metal sheet in a flat plate solar collector whose primary function is to maximize the transfer of solar radiation reaching it through the glazing to the heat transfer fluid.
2. A flat surface, usually black and sometimes incorporating the use of mirrors or transparent covers, used to collect solar energy.