Definition of digest

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Digest (v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

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Indigest :: Indigest (a.) Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested.
Concoctive :: Concoctive (a.) Having the power of digesting or ripening; digestive.
Digest :: 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..
Egest :: Egest (v. t.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys..
Hepato-pancreas :: Hepato-pancreas (n.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates..
Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
Predigestion :: Predigestion (n.) Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.
Mishna :: Mishna (n.) A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud..
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.
Hemialbumose :: Hemialbumose (n.) An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin..
Peptic :: Peptic (a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces..
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile..
Malassimilation :: Malassimilation (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
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..
Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief..
Elastin :: Elastin (n.) A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin..
Chylifaction :: Chylifaction (n.) The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process..
Antipeptone :: Antipeptone (n.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice..
Digestor :: Digestor (n.) See Digester.
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