ingest - meaning and definition. What is ingest
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What (who) is ingest - definition

CONSUMPTION OF A SUBSTANCE BY AN ORGANISM
Ingest; Ingesting; Ingested
  • Foreign body in esophagus

Ingest         
·vt To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
ingest         
¦ verb take (a substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it.
Derivatives
ingestion noun
ingestive adjective
Origin
C17: from L. ingest-, ingerere 'bring in'.
ingest         
(ingests, ingesting, ingested)
When animals or plants ingest a substance, they take it into themselves, for example by eating or absorbing it. (TECHNICAL)
...side effects occurring in fish that ingest this substance...
VERB: V n
ingestion
Every ingestion of food can affect our mood or thinking processes.
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Wikipedia

Ingestion

Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. In animals, it normally is accomplished by taking in a substance through the mouth into the gastrointestinal tract, such as through eating or drinking. In single-celled organisms ingestion takes place by absorbing a substance through the cell membrane.

Besides nutritional items, substances that may be ingested include medication (where ingestion is termed oral administration), recreational drugs, and substances considered inedible, such as foreign bodies or excrement. Ingestion is a common route taken by pathogenic organisms and poisons entering the body.

Ingestion can also refer to a mechanism picking up something and making it enter an internal hollow of that mechanism, e.g. "a grille was fitted to prevent the pump from ingesting driftwood".

Examples of use of ingest
1. Others said they were worried their cattle would ingest contaminated grass or water.
2. Onban has been known as popular food from which people can ingest various nutritive substances.
3. They ingest bacteria and small particles and enrich the earth with their waste products, called castings.
4. It cultivates a new, distorted but easy to ingest concept÷ culture terrorism.
5. Birds and sea mammals ingest the acid by eating fish and shellfish who dine on the algae.