INGESTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ingestion mean? 

• INGESTION (noun)
  The noun INGESTION has 1 sense:

1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

  Familiarity information: INGESTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INGESTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake

Hypernyms ("ingestion" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ingestion"):

eating; feeding (the act of consuming food)

deglutition; drink; swallow (the act of swallowing)

suck; sucking; suction (the act of sucking)

drinking; imbibing; imbibition (the act of consuming liquids)

Derivation:

ingest (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

 Context examples 

UV damage and ingestion of inorganic arsenic may play a role in the development of the disease.

(Bowen Disease of the Skin, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, animal studies have demonstrated that the ingestion of guarana resulted in decreased proliferation and increased apoptosis of tumor cells.

(Guarana Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon ingestion of carbon C13 octanoate, this agent is metabolized in the liver via mitochondrial beta-oxidation.

(Carbon C 13 Sodium Octanoate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is more often due to a gradual decline of lactase production in adulthood following the ingestion of fewer lactose-containing foods or secondary to an intestinal mucosal brush-border injury.

(Lactose Intolerance, NCI Thesaurus)

It is caused by ingestion of oocysts and can produce tissue cysts.

(Isosporiasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

C. histolyticum is pathogenic when exposed to open wounds on the body but not upon ingestion.

(Clostridium histolyticum, NCI Thesaurus)

Less frequently it may be caused by ingestion of plant alkaloids.

(Liver Veno-Occlusive Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The bacteria are transmitted through ingestion of contaminated food.

(Listeriosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Prior to ingestion of food at meals and at bedtime.

(Before Meals And Bedtime, NCI Thesaurus)

But the question still remained how the ingestion of salt could lead to these effects in the brain.

(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)