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digestion

English

Etymology

From Old French digestion.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /da??d??st??n/, /d??d??st??n/
  • Rhymes: -?st??n

Noun

digestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)

  1. The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
  2. The result of this process.
  3. The ability to use this process.
  4. The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
  5. The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
  6. (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
  7. (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.

Derived terms

  • predigestion

Related terms

  • digest
  • digester
  • digestible

Translations

Anagrams

  • genistoid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digestio, digestionem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.??s.tj??/
  • Rhymes: -??

Noun

digestion f (plural digestions)

  1. digestion

Further reading

  • “digestion” in 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)

  1. digestion

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /did??es?tju?/

Noun

digestion f

  1. digestion

digestion From the web:

  • what digestion occurs in the stomach
  • what digestion occurs in the small intestine
  • what digestion begins in the mouth
  • what digestion occurs in the mouth
  • what digestion starts in the mouth
  • what digestion occurs in the large intestine
  • what digestion happens in the stomach
  • what digestion takes place in the esophagus

malabsorption

English

Etymology

From mal- +? absorption.

Noun

malabsorption (countable and uncountable, plural malabsorptions)

  1. The state arising from abnormality in digestion or absorption of food nutrients across the gastrointestinal tract.

Translations

malabsorption From the web:

  • what malabsorption means
  • what malabsorption syndromes
  • what causes malabsorption of vitamin d
  • what causes malabsorption of iron
  • what causes malabsorption in dogs
  • what causes malabsorption of b12
  • what causes malabsorption of nutrients in cf
  • what is malabsorption syndrome in hindi
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