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Ingesta

noun
1.
Solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth.





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"Ingesta" Quotes from Famous Books



... illustration covers a wider ground than the special function to which it belongs. We are learning that the chemistry of the body must be studied, not simply by its ingesta and egesta, but that there is a long intermediate series of changes which must be investigated in their own light, under their own special conditions. The expression "sum of vital unities" applies to the chemical actions, as well as to other actions localized in special parts; and when the ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... the English—lived to the great age of 104; and for the last thirty years of his life took scarcely any other food but chocolate. 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, ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds


Words linked to "Ingesta" :   nutrition, alimentation, nutriment, nourishment, victuals, sustenance, aliment


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