Taken thirty minutes prior to meals, it significantly slows intestinal motility, giving the intestines greater time to absorb fluid in the stool.

Its size helps absorb fluid that might otherwise be locked in a small fixed system with no room for expansion due to valve arrangement.

The first of these is phagocytic and may absorb seminal fluid, whereas the other may digest spermatozoa.

Pinopodes continue to absorb fluid, and removes most of it during the early stages of implantation.

A tampon is a mass of absorbent material into a body cavity or wound to absorb bodily fluid.

The discs also absorb fluid in order to increase the spine's length when movement takes place.

The pulu (frond fibres) are used to absorb bodily fluid from corpses in preparation for traditional burials.

The interstitum absorbs fluid recovered from urine.

Loperamide slows the rhythm of digestion so that the small intestines have more time to absorb fluid and nutrients from the foods you eat.

The Cincinnati-based P.& G. has developed a curly cellulose fiber that it says absorbs fluid virtually on contact.