Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ingestion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ingestion \In*ges"tion\, n. [L. ingestio: cf. F. ingestion.]
(Physiol.)
The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the
ingestion of milk or other food.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ingestion
n : the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
(as by eating) [syn: {consumption}, {intake}, {uptake}]
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