Definition of Digestion

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Digestion

The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.

Generation of pus; suppuration.

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Digestion Quotations

Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Jack LaLanne

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
George Herbert

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
Ivan Pavlov

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.
Ivan Pavlov

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
Mason Cooley

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
Anthony Trollope

In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
Michael Behe

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
Brian Ferneyhough

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.
Mary Webb

Digestion Translations

digestion in Dutch is digestie, spijsvertering
digestion in German is Verdauung

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