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Digestion
Digestion Di*ges"tion (?; 106), n. [F. digestion, L.
digestio.]
1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order;
classification; thoughtful consideration.
2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and
intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable
of being absorbed by the blood.
3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Meaning of Digestion from wikipedia
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Digestion is the
breakdown of
large insoluble food
molecules into
small water-soluble food
molecules so that they can be
absorbed into the
watery blood...
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tract plus the
accessory organs of
digestion (the tongue,
salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gallbladder).
Digestion involves the
breakdown of food into...
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Anaerobic digestion is a
sequence of
processes by
which microorganisms break down
biodegradable material in the
absence of oxygen. The
process is used...
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Healthy digestion, also
called digestive health,
results in the
absorption of
nutrients from food
without distressing symptoms.
Healthy digestion follows...
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metabolized in the liver,
absorbed directly into the
intestines during digestion, and
found in ****. Trehalose, a
major sugar of insects, is
rapidly hydrolyzed...
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Phototropic Digestion is a
process in
which saprobionts feed by
secreting enzymes through the cell
membrane onto the food. The
enzymes catalyze the
digestion of...
- humans) and in the
tracts of
carnivorous plants,
where they aid in the
digestion of food, as well as
inside cells,
especially in
their lysosomes, where...
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extracellular digestion. In amphioxus,
digestion is both
extracellular and intracellular.
Intracellular digestion is
divided into
heterophagic digestion and autophagic...
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Aerobic digestion is a
process in
sewage treatment designed to
reduce the
volume of
sewage sludge and make it
suitable for
subsequent use. More recently...
- Owls are
birds from the
order Strigiformes /ˈstrɪdʒɪfɔːrmiːz/,
which includes over 200
species of
mostly solitary and
nocturnal birds of prey typified...