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Ingesta   Listen
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Ingesta  n. pl.  (Physiol.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; opposed to egesta.





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"Ingesta" Quotes from Famous Books



... Progress are to be sought. Man is simply a part of nature; he has no privileged position, and he is born neither good nor bad. Erras, as Seneca said, si existumas vitia nobiscum esse: supervenerunt, ingesta sunt. [Footnote: Seneca, Ep. 124.] We are made good or bad by education, public opinion, laws, government; and here the author points to the significance of the instinct of imitation as a social force, which ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
 
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... the liver and pancreas; consequently, when it reaches the small intestine, where absorption takes place, it is in a well diluted condition. During its passage through the small intestine, the nutrient portion of the ingesta is abstracted from it by the villi (small hair-like processes) with which the small intestine is thickly studded, so that at the end of its journey of about twenty-two feet (if digestion is normal) all that is of value to the organism has been appropriated—the ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell
 
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... Various ingesta readily give evidence of themselves by their influence upon the breath. It has been remarked that the breath of individuals who have recently performed a prolonged necropsy smells for some hours of the odor of the cadaver. Such things as copaiba, cubebs, sandalwood, ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
 
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Words linked to "Ingesta" :   victuals, nourishment, aliment, nutrition



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