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disgestion

disgestion is the obsolete form of digestion.

Meaning of digestion

Noun

digestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)

  1. The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be used by the body.
    • In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; no digestion, circulation, or nutrition; […]1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section...
  2. The result of this process.
  3. The ability to use this process.
  4. The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
  5. The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
  6. (archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.

See all 7 meanings of digestion

Forms of disgestion

pluraldisgestions

Questions about disgestion

What is disgestion the obsolete form of?
Disgestion is the obsolete form of digestion.

Words near disgestion in the dictionary

  1. disgerminoma
  2. disgerminomas
  3. disgest
  4. disgested
  5. disgesting
  6. disgestion
  7. disgestions
  8. disgests
  9. disglorified
  10. disglorifies
  11. disglorify

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