resorption

noun

Etymology: By surface analysis, resorb + -tion.

1. The act of resorbing.
2. The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
3. The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.

   “[…] there has been recognition that porosity of the orbital roofs and cranial vault may arise due to a variety of different causes. These include rickets and scurvy, where it occurs due to different pathophysiological mechanisms[…]. In vitamin D deficiency, it arises as a result of deficient mineralization of the growing bone surface, in scurvy as a result of deposition of porous new bone and/or vascular inflammatory response; versus diploic hyperplasia coupled with resorption of overlying cortical bone in anemia.”