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Imbibition   Listen
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Imbibition  n.  The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.






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"Imbibition" Quotes from Famous Books



... their ameboid movements cease, and their function is arrested. It is plain that their phagocytocic power is immediately destroyed. It is possible, also, that the fixed tissue-cells are likewise impaired or killed by alcoholic imbibition. How deleterious, and even deadly, must the internal administration of alcoholic liquors then be in the treatment of diphtheria, and of other diseases having a germinal origin? It therefore follows, to my mind, that all the diseases which are the result ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen



Words linked to "Imbibition" :   chemistry, swilling, uptake, drinking, absorption, imbibe, soaking up, chemical science, potation



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