Resorbie

Resorbie is a term that has appeared in limited academic and colloquial usage to refer to a thing that resorbs, or to a mechanism that promotes resorption. As a noun, it may denote an agent, process, or material that is broken down and absorbed by a living system or dissolved under physiological conditions. The word is not widely standardized, and its precise sense can vary by field or author.

In biology and medicine, resorbing or resorptive processes are common concepts, such as bone resorption carried out by osteoclasts. In some contexts, resorbie is used to describe the resorptive element itself or a factor that initiates resorption. However, these usages are not common in formal terminology, where resorption, resorptive processes, or resorbing agents are more typical.

In materials science and biomaterials, the term has occasionally appeared to describe resorbable or biodegradable implants, scaffolds, or other devices designed to be gradually dissolved and absorbed by the body after fulfilling their function. In this sense, a resorbie could be interpreted as a resorbable material or as the mechanism enabling resorption, though standard language generally favors terms like resorbable, biodegradable, or resorption-capable.

Because of its inconsistent usage, readers should rely on established terms within specific disciplines. See also resorption, resorbable materials, biodegradation, osteoclasts.