digestion
See also: digestión
English
Etymology
From Old French digestion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daɪˈdʒɛstʃən/, /dɨˈdʒɛstʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛstʃən
Noun
digestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)
- The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
- 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 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.
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- 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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Translations
process in gastrointestinal tract
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result of this process
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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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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
Further reading
- “digestion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Alternative forms
- digestioun
- digestiun
Noun
digestion f (oblique plural digestions, nominative singular digestion, nominative plural digestions)
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