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Peptonize :: Peptonize (v. t.) To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food..

Amphopeptone :: Amphopeptone (n.) A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone..

Masticate :: Masticate (v. t.) To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food..

Leucin :: Leucin (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid..

Archenteron :: Archenteron (n.) The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

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..

Indigestedness :: Indigestedness (n.) The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness.

Light :: Light (superl.) Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment..

Cacogastric :: Cacogastric (a.) Troubled with bad digestion.

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..

Codex :: Codex (n.) A collection or digest of laws; a code.

Differentiation :: Differentiation (n.) The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes..

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..

Flytrap :: Flytrap (n.) A plant (Dionaea muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves..

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature.

Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.

Decoctible :: Decoctible (a.) Capable of being boiled or digested.

Synergy :: Synergy (n.) the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy..

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