What is "digests"

Usage examples of "digests".

We have also seen that butyric acid, which is much more efficacious than propionic or valerianic acids, digests with pepsin at the higher temperature less than a third of the fibrin which is digested at the same temperature by hydrochloric acid.

Hooker has recently shown, Nepenthes, could all have acquired the power of secreting a fluid which dissolves or digests animal matter.

The three most remarkable characters possessed by the several members of the Droseraceae consist in the leaves of some having the power of movement when excited, in their glands secreting a fluid which digests animal matter, and in their absorption of the digested matter.

When our stomach digests food, it needs a larger supply of blood in its walls, and the heart has to pump harder to deliver this.

As so many experiments were tried on the digestive power of Drosera, only a few were made with Dionaea, but they were amply sufficient to prove that it digests, This plant, moreover, is not so well fitted as Drosera for observation, as the process goes on within the closed lobes.

In this respect Dionaea differs from Drosera, which catches and digests many insects after shorter intervals of time.

That these glands secrete a fluid which dissolves or digests animal matter out of the bodies of the creatures which the leaves capture, is also highly probable from the analogy of Dionaea.

In a similar way, the pancreas pours out a fluid that digests the fats.

My body easily digests my food, absorbs the nutrients, and eliminates what is not needed.