Definition of digestion

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Digestion (n.) 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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Stomach :: Stomach (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric..
Coction :: Coction (n.) Digestion.
Pancreatic :: Pancreatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments..
Indigestion :: Indigestion (n.) Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.
Digestion :: Digestion (n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood..
Peptic :: Peptic (a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces..
Stercorarian :: Stercoranist (n.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient..
Proteolysis :: Proteolysis (n.) The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.
Digestion :: Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill..
Metapeptone :: Metapeptone (n.) An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
Colon :: Colon (n.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion..
Peptics :: Peptics (n.) The science of digestion.
Parapeptone :: Parapeptone (n.) An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice..
Soy :: Soy (n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water..
Cacogastric :: Cacogastric (a.) Troubled with bad digestion.
Eupepsy :: Eupepsy (n.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.
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..
Predigest :: Predigest (v. t.) To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.
Intestinal :: Intestinal (a.) Of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments..
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