Resorption or Absorption?**From the George Williams Hooper Foundation and the College of Dentistry, University of California.Approved by the Committee on Nomenclature of the Faculty of the College of Dentistry, University of California, January, 1932.This discussion developed from the necessity of bringing about uniformity in the use of one or the other term in scientific dental publications and is also intended to assist in the problem of education of dental students.