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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Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood..
Inconcocted :: Inconcocted (a.) Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened..
Cacogastric :: Cacogastric (a.) Troubled with bad digestion.
Heavy :: Heavy (superl.) Not agreeable to, or suitable for, the stomach; not easily digested; -- said of food..
Apepsy :: Apepsy (n.) Defective digestion, indigestion..
Disgestion :: Disgestion (n.) Digestion.
Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer..
Duodenal :: Duodenal (a.) Of or pertaining to the duodenum; as, duodenal digestion..
Athanor :: Athanor (n.) A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat..
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile..
Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..
Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..
Vegetal :: Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals..
Digestive :: Digestive (n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine..
Antipeptone :: Antipeptone (n.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice..
Eupeptic :: Eupeptic (a.) Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man..
Crudity :: Crudity (n.) That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form..
Elixation :: Elixation (n.) A seething; digestion.
Peptic :: Peptic (a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces..
Income :: Income (n.) That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output..
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