DIGESTION
\da͡ɪd͡ʒˈɛst͡ʃən], \daɪdʒˈɛstʃən], \d_aɪ_dʒ_ˈɛ_s_tʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DIGESTION
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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learning and coming to understand ideas and information
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the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
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learning and coming to understand ideas and information; "his appetite for facts was better than his digestion"
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the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
By Princeton University
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The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
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The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
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Generation of pus; suppuration.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
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The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
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Generation of pus; suppuration.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of digesting; the conversion of food by the action of the gastric juices into forms that can be used by the body; mental or physical assimilation; as, the digestion of food in the stomach and the digestion of ideas in the mind.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The process of changing food in the stomach, so that it can be taken up by the blood and furnish nutriment to the body.
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The power to digest; the digestive functions.
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Mental assimilation.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The process by which nutrient materials are rendered absorbable by the working of various juices and mechanical action.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Digestio, from digere, 'to dissolve;' Coctio, C. Ciborum, Pepsis, Digestive Process. Digestion is a function, by means of which alimentary substances, when introduced into the digestive canal, undergo different alterations. The object of this is to convert them into two parts; the one, a reparatory juice, destined to renew the perpetual waste occurring in the economy: the other, deprived of its nutritious properties, to be rejected from the body. This function is composed of a series of organic actions, differing according to the particular organization of the animal. In man they are eight in number, viz: 1. Prehension of food. 2. Mastication. 3. Insalivation. 4. Deglutition. 5. Action of the stomach. 6. Action of the small intestine. 7. Action of the large intestine. 8. Expulsion of the faeces.
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is also a pharmaceutical operation, which consists in treating certain solid substances with water, alcohol, or other menstruum, at a slightly elevated temperature, -in a sand-bath, for example, or by leaving them exposed for some time to the sun.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The physical and chemical changes which nutrient material undergoes under the influence of digestive ferments to render it soluble, diffusible, and assimilable. These changes occur (a) in the digestive apparatus of animals; (b) on the leaves of insectivorous plants; (c) in the tissues of animals and plants; (d) outside the living organism.
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In popular language, the changes that food normally undergoes in the stomach and intestines.
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The maceration of medicinal or other substances in warm liquids, in order to extract the active principles.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe