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Coction :: Coction (n.) Digestion.

Disgestion :: Disgestion (n.) Digestion.

Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill..

Predigestion :: Predigestion (n.) Digestion too soon performed; hasty 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..

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

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..

Hemipeptone :: Hemipeptone (n.) A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.

Elixation :: Elixation (n.) A seething; digestion.

Eupepsy :: Eupepsy (n.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

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

Digester :: Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power..

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..

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..

Sanguification :: Sanguification (n.) The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.

Digesture :: Digesture (n.) Digestion.

Digestive :: Digestive (a.) Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments..

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..

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..

Digestion :: Digestion (n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.

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