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Digestion
Digestion Di*ges"tion (?; 106), n. [F. digestion, L.
digestio.]
1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order;
classification; thoughtful consideration.
2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and
intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable
of being absorbed by the blood.
3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Gastric digestionGastric Gas"tric, a. [Gr. ?, ?, stomach: cf. F. gastrique.]
Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the
gastric artery.
Gastric digestion (Physiol.), the conversion of the
albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and
diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric
juice.
Gastric fever (Med.), a fever attended with prominent
gastric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of
typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the
stomach attended with fever.
Gastric juice (Physiol.), a thin, watery fluid, with an
acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands
contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It
consists mainly of dilute hydrochloric acid and the
ferment pepsin. It is the most important digestive fluid
in the body, but acts only on proteid foods.
Gastric remittent fever (Med.), a form of remittent fever
with pronounced stomach symptoms. IndigestionIndigestion In`di*ges"tion (?; 106), n. [L. indigestio: cf. F.
indigestion. See In- not, and Digest.]
Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal
changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal;
dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion. Predigestion
Predigestion Pre`di*ges"tion, n.
1. Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.]
--Bacon.
2. (Med.) Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or
impaired digestion.
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