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ingestion
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ingestion \In*ges"tion\, n. [L. ingestio: cf. F. ingestion.] (Physiol.) The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin ingestionem (nominative ingestio ) "a pouring in," noun of action from past participle stem of ingerere (see ingest ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: consumption , intake , uptake ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism . In animals , it normally is accomplished by taking in the substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract , such as through eating or drinking . In single-celled organisms , ingestion ...
Usage examples of ingestion.
Volgnarius has seen a grain of wheat make its exit from the axilla, and Polisius mentions an abscess of the back from which was extracted a grain of wheat three months after ingestion.
Bally reports a somewhat similar instance, in which, three months after ingestion, during an attack of peripneumonia, a foreign body was extracted from an abscess of the thorax, between the 2d and 3d ribs.
Biological processes of some sort were taking place here, anabolism, catabolism, ingestion, respiration, reproduction, whatever.
That, no, rather the consuming guilt had been over the condition that the Auteur suspend the ingestion of spirits, which it turned out, M.
The marshaling of the organelles, the development of the eukaryotic membrane, energy by ingestion, colonies, differentiation, the notochord, the brain, the first croak of distress, courtship, self-expression: the word has always been permanently restless, wanting only to repeat imperfectly, recast what it has been until then.
And it's evacuated from the urine within twenty-four hours of ingestion.
Black urine is generally caused by the ingestion of pigmented food or drugs, such as carbolic acid and the anilines.
Dairy samplers will test milk and randomized foodstuffs over the next three days along the ingestion swath.
If he ate flour in any form or however combined, in the smallest quantity, in two minutes or less he would have painful itching over the whole body, accompanied by severe colic and tormina in the bowels, great sickness in the stomach, and continued vomiting, which he declared was ten times as distressing as the symptoms caused by the ingestion of tartar emetic.
Tissot observed vomiting in one of his friends after the ingestion of the slightest amount of sugar.
An enema containing 80 grains of belladonna root has been followed in five hours by death, and Taylor has mentioned recovery after the ingestion of three drams of belladonna.
On another occasion I had helped the Minids outlast a siege of giant hyenas by reciting a story and obediently shooting one of the besiegers with my besottedness to wholesale ingestion by a leopard.
Yet you continue to overeat, indicating clearly that the physical sensation of ingestion outweighs the theoretical pleasure of improved appearance.
Hevin mentions several cases of grains of wheat abstracted from abscesses of the thoracic parietes, from thirteen to fifteen days after ingestion.
Oblomovkan childhood involves a psychological regression to a carefree, presexual existence where libidinal pleasure is derived primarily, if not exclusively, from the ingestion of food and drink.