Definition of digest

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Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..

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Rectum :: Rectum (n.) The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
Code :: Code (n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest..
Cardialgy :: Cardialgy (n.) A burning or gnawing pain, or feeling of distress, referred to the region of the heart, accompanied with cardiac palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion..
Indigestibility :: Indigestibility (n.) The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.
Basilica :: Basilica (n.) A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century..
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.
Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.
Tyrosin :: Tyrosin (n.) A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative..
Peptics :: Peptics (n.) The science of digestion.
Elixation :: Elixation (n.) A seething; digestion.
Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..
Cacogastric :: Cacogastric (a.) Troubled with bad digestion.
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile..
Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances..
Inconcocted :: Inconcocted (a.) Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened..
Redigest :: Redigest (v. t.) To digest, or reduce to form, a second time..
Synergy :: Synergy (n.) the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy..
Bile :: Bile (n.) A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters..
Undergo :: Undergo (v. t.) To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion..
Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..
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