digestion
See also: digestión
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English melting (“melting, digestion”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdigestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)
- The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
- 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization[1], Edinburgh, London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:
- In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
- Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
- The result of this process.
- The ability to use this process.
- The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
- The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
- (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
- (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.
Derived terms
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editTranslations
editprocess in gastrointestinal tract
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result of this process
ability to use this process
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processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms
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assimilation and understanding of ideas
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Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin dīgestiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdigestion f (plural digestions)
Further reading
edit- “digestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editdigestion oblique singular, f (oblique plural digestions, nominative singular digestion, nominative plural digestions)
Piedmontese
editPronunciation
editNoun
editdigestion f
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