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Related terms:
piloerection
skin aging
skin pigmentation
sweating
renal reabsorption
Organ or Tissue Function
skin absorption
skin ab·sorp·tion
Subclass of:
Skin Physiological Phenomena; Absorption, Physiological
Definitions related to skin absorption:
  • To take in or assimilate substances into or across the skin.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Uptake of substances through the SKIN.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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