Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Ingestion   Listen
noun
Ingestion  n.  (Physiol.) The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Ingestion" Quotes from Famous Books



... have done before and since, one weak point in the practice of schools, namely, the small result of much time. He fell into the natural error of the inexperienced teacher, that of supposing that the remedy was the ingestion of much and diversified intelligible matter. It requires much observation of young minds to discover that the rapid inculcation of unassimilated information stupefies the faculties instead of training them. Is it fanciful to think that in Edward ...
— Milton • Mark Pattison

... the amanita, the deadliest and the most widely distributed of the fungi, and the direst of all vegetable poisons to man and beast alike. The alkaloid which it contains takes effect only some hours after its ingestion, when it has entered the blood-streams and begun its disintegrating action upon the red corpuscles. The dogs must have partaken of it on the ...
— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert



Words linked to "Ingestion" :   swallow, drinking, drink, bodily function, consumption, uptake, activity, sucking, imbibing, ingest, suck, feeding, imbibition, intake, suction, body process



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com