REUPTAKE

reuptake, re-uptake

(noun) a process of using up or consuming again; “psychopharmacologists discovered that amine reuptake is a process that inactivates monoamine neurotransmitters”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

reuptake (countable and uncountable, plural reuptakes)

(rare) A second or subsequent uptake

(biochemistry) Specifically, the reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by a neuron after the transmission of a neural impulse across a synapse

Verb

reuptake (third-person singular simple present reuptakes, present participle reuptaking, simple past reuptook, past participle reuptaken)

(mostly, biochemistry, transitive) To take up again; to reabsorb.

Source: Wiktionary



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