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Ingestion   /ɪndʒˈɛstʃən/   Listen
Ingestion

noun
1.
The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating).  Synonyms: consumption, intake, uptake.






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"Ingestion" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon six canons: (1) the patient's actions; (2) what is evacuated from his body; (3) the nature of the pain; and (4) the site thereof; (5) swelling; and (6) the effluvia given off his person." Q "How cometh hurt to the head?" "By the ingestion of food upon food, before the first be digested, and by fullness upon fullness; this it is that wasteth peoples. He who would live long, let him be early with the morning-meal and not late with the evening-meal; let him ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... overwork or underwork. A digestive organ may be overworked by being given too much food, or food of too stimulating a quality; or the over-stimulation may come from poisons coming into the food from without or developing in the food after its ingestion. The bowels may be injured by coming in violent contact with external objects. When this is the cause there will be the history ...
— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.



Words linked to "Ingestion" :   ingest, eating, uptake, deglutition, suction, swallow, imbibition, activity, drinking, bodily process, body process, imbibing, feeding, bodily function, drink, sucking, suck



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