Qualifier used to indicate that a compound or a device is bioresorbed, i.e., totally eliminated or bioassimilated by an animal or a human body.
Note: Lactic acid-based polyesters are bioresorbable after preliminary hydrolytic degradation.
Source:
PAC, 2020, 92, 193. 'Nomenclature and terminology for linear lactic acid-based polymers (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 207 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2017-1007)