Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Ingested matter, especially food taken into the body through the mouth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Substances introduced into an organic body, especially through the alimentary passage; hence, any things put or taken in and incorporated, as into the mind: opposed to egesta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Physiol.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to
egesta .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Material introduced into the
body by thestomach oralimentary canal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth
Etymologies
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Examples
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La ingesta de carne, por ejemplo, es limitadísima.
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La ingesta de proteínas y calorías es bajísima en la sierra.
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But in proportion to the ingesta he should have evacuations twice or thrice in the day, once at night and more copiously in the morning, as is customary with a person in health.
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But let it be said that this does not take place in half an hour, but in an hour, or even in a day; any way, it is still manifest that more blood passes through the heart in consequence of its action, than can either be supplied by the whole of the ingesta, or than can be contained in the veins at the same moment.
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Does the palate exert some peculiar action on the ingesta, so as to give to each a distinct sapor?
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It is also certain that those who indulge in excesses find their vigor more speedily restored by the alternate use of chocolate and coffee than by any other ingesta; and pigs, goats, and horses, which are fed even on the spoiled berries, are observed to become very speedily fat, and in good condition.
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When it is considered how our mental states may be modified by what we eat and drink, the importance of good _ingesta_, both fluid and solid, becomes apparent.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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The air which fills the lungs is soon again expired, whilst the ingesta of the abdominal viscera are for a longer period retained; and as the space, which by every inspiration the thorax gains from the abdomen, would cause inconvenient pressure on the distended organs of this latter cavity, so we find that to obviate this inconvenience, nature has constructed the anterior parietes of the abdomen of yielding material.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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But let it be said that this does not take place in half an hour, but in an hour, or even in a day; any way, it is still manifest that more blood passes through the heart in consequence of its action, than can either be supplied by the whole of the ingesta, or than can be contained in the veins at the same moment.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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It is to be observed that as the cecum is only three inches in length and two and a half in diameter, and as its contents are necessarily propelled in opposition to gravity, a slight casualty will hinder or obstruct the upward movement of the pultaceous mass of the effete ingesta.
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