Digestion

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Digestion \Di*ges"tion\ (?; 106), n. [F. digestion, L.
     digestio.]
     1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order;
        classification; thoughtful consideration.
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     2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and
        intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable
        of being absorbed by the blood.
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     3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  digestion
       n 1: the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by
            bacteria or by chemical action or heat
       2: the organic process by which food is converted into
          substances that can be absorbed into the body
       3: learning and coming to understand ideas and information;
          "his appetite for facts was better than his digestion"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "digestion":
     ablation, absorbency, absorbent, absorption, adsorbent, adsorption,
     assimilation, attrition, bile, blending, blotter, blotting,
     blotting paper, burning up, chemisorption, chemosorption,
     consumption, depletion, digestive system, drain, eating up,
     endosmosis, engrossment, erosion, exhaustion, exosmosis, expending,
     expenditure, finishing, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract,
     imbibing, impoverishment, infiltration, ingestion,
     intestinal juice, liver, maceration, mastication, osmosis,
     pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice, percolation,
     predigestion, pulpefaction, pulpification, pulping, saliva,
     salivary digestion, salivary glands, secondary digestion, seepage,
     soaking-up, sorption, spending, sponge, sponging, squandering,
     taking-in, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away,
     wearing away, wearing down
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  DIGESTION, n.  The conversion of victuals into virtues.  When the
  process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead -- a circumstance from
  which that wicked writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, infers that the ladies
  are the greater sufferers from dyspepsia.