Definition of Assimilable

1. Adjective. Able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues.

Similar to: Digestible

Definition of Assimilable

1. a. That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.

Definition of Assimilable

1. Adjective. Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation. ¹

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Definition of Assimilable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Assimilable

1. Capable of undergoing assimilation. See: assimilation. (05 Mar 2000)

Literary usage of Assimilable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Japanese Problem: A Study of the Racial Relations of the East by Sidney Lewis Gulick (1914)
"If the question is asked why they are not assimilable, we are told that they are so different, so fixed in their race traits, so unalterably Japanese, ..."

2. The Natural Laws of Husbandry by Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"... for decrease of productive power in Boils—Classification of manures according to the amount of nitrogen; assimilable and sparingly assimilable nitrogen; ..."

3. The Natural Laws of Husbandry by Justus Liebig, John Blyth (1863)
"... for decrease of productive power in soils—Classification of manures according to the amount of nitrogen; assimilable and sparingly assimilable nitrogen; ..."

4. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry: Proteolytic Enzymes by Jean Effront (1917)
"What is the nature of this assimilable nitrogen? ... RELATION BETWEEN THE assimilable NITROGEN IN A WORT AND THE NITROGEN PRECIPITABLE BY TANNIN. ..."

5. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"OTHER assimilable NITROGEN COMPOUNDS BESIDE AMMONIA AND NITRATES. THE question will naturally be asked, What other chemical substances beside ..."

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