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1 digestion
[- ən]1) (the act of digesting food.) πέψη,χώνεψη2) (the ability of one's body to digest food: poor digestion.) πέψη -
2 saliva
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3 digest
1. verb1) (to break up (food) in the stomach etc and turn it into a form which the body can use: The invalid had to have food that was easy to digest.) χωνεύω2) (to take in and think over (information etc): It took me some minutes to digest what he had said.) ”χωνεύω”,κατανοώ2. noun(summary; brief account: a digest of the week's news.)- digestion
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4 juice
[‹u:s]1) (the liquid part of fruits or vegetables: She squeezed the juice out of the orange; tomato juice.) χυμός2) ((often in plural) the fluid contained in meat: Roasting meat in tin foil helps to preserve the juices.) ζουμί3) ((in plural) fluid contained in the organs of the body, eg to help digestion: digestive/gastric juices.) υγρό του σώματος•- juicy- juiciness -
5 pancreas
['pæŋkriəs](a part of the body which helps in the digestion of food.) πάγκρεας -
6 roughage
[-fi‹]noun (substances in food, eg bran or fibre, which help digestion.) πίτουρο, πιτυρούχο αλεύρι
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digestion — ► NOUN 1) the process of digesting. 2) a person s capacity to digest food … English terms dictionary
digestion — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ good ▪ poor VERB + DIGESTION ▪ have ▪ She has very poor digestion. ▪ aid … Collocations dictionary
digestion — late 14c., from O.Fr. digestion (13c.), from L. digestionem (nom. digestio), noun of action from pp. stem of digerere (see DIGEST (Cf. digest) (n.)) … Etymology dictionary
digestion — noun 1 (U) the process of digesting food 2 (C) your ability to digest food easily: a good/poor etc digestion: I ve always had a poor digestion … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
digestion — noun Date: 14th century the action, process, or power of digesting: as a. the process of making food absorbable by dissolving it and breaking it down into simpler chemical compounds that occurs in the living body chiefly through the action of… … New Collegiate Dictionary
digestion — noun /daɪˈdʒɛstʃən,dɨˈdʒɛstʃən/ a) The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body. b) The result of this process. See Also: dige … Wiktionary
digestion — noun the process of digesting. ↘a person s capacity to digest food … English new terms dictionary
digestion coefficient — noun also digestibility coefficient : the proportion of a nutrient taken into the digestive tract that is actually digested compare biological value … Useful english dictionary
digestion — UK [daɪˈdʒestʃ(ə)n] / US noun 1) [uncountable] the process of changing food into the substances that your body needs Alcohol slows down the digestion of food. 2) [countable/uncountable] your ability to digest food … English dictionary
digestion — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. digesting, eupepsia, assimilation, separation, disintegration, conversion, ingestion, absorption, metabolism, chymification. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The process of absorbing and incorporating, especially mentally:… … English dictionary for students
digestion — di|ges|tion [ daı dʒestʃən ] noun 1. ) the process of changing food into the substances that your body needs 2. ) your ability to digest food … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
