Definition of Ingests

1. Verb. (third-person singular of ingest) ¹

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Definition of Ingests

1. ingest [v] - See also: ingest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingests

ingerminates
ingerminating
ingersonite
ingest
ingesta
ingestable
ingested
ingester
ingesters
ingestibility
ingestible
ingesting
ingestion
ingestions
ingestive
ingests (current term)
inghalla
ingine
ingines
ingirt
ingirted
ingirting
ingirts
ingle
inglenook
inglenooks
ingles
inglobate
inglobe
inglobed

Literary usage of Ingests

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1900)
"As it grows it seizes upon and ingests the arrested oogonia as an Amoeba ingests its prey, storing up their digested products in the form of a number of ..."

2. Lectures on the action of medicines by Thomas Lauder Brunton (1899)
"deal of it, so that he ingests a lot of potash. The kidney has to select from the salts brought to it by the blood and put out more potash than soda that ..."

3. The Artificial Feeding of Infants, Including a Critical Review of the Recent by Charles Francis Judson, John Claxton Gittings (1902)
"The adult ingests daily for each kilogramme of his body weight one and ... The infant ingests per kilogramme twice as much albumin and five times as much ..."

4. On Diabetes Mellitus and Glycosuria by Emil Kleen (1900)
"A man of ordinary size ingests about 2.5 or 3 liters daily,* and excretes an equal amount. About one-third of the whole excretion passes through the lungs ..."

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