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Definition of Ingesting
1. ingest [v] - See also: ingest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingesting
Literary usage of Ingesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Ingestion and Energy Transformations: With Special Reference to the by Francis Gano Benedict, Thorne Martin Carpenter (1918)
"Both the nitrogen excretion and the total metabolism indicate that the effect of
ingesting this protein food material was still felt at the end of the ..."
2. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"Phagocytes are capable of ingesting living and virulent micro-organisms.—The
digestion of micro-organisms in phagocytes is most often effected in a feebly ..."
3. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate ...by William Saville Kent by William Saville Kent (1882)
"55, A group of four monads attached to vegetable fibre, showing at a and b normal
sedentary forms, at c an example ingesting food-matter at its lateral ..."
4. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1892)
"In the dust diseases of the lung the proliferating cells derived from the lining
epithelium of the air-vesicles have a similar power of ingesting particles ..."
5. Mineral Tolerance of Animals by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"Potentially, humans ingesting 1 kg of liver daily could ingest excessive amounts
of arsenic, cadmium, copper, iron (see below), lead, mercury, and selenium. ..."
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