(v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
(v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
(v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
(v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
(v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
(v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
(v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
(v. t.) To ripen; to mature.
(v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
(v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
(v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
(v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
(v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) The neurologic or digestive signs were present in 12% of the children.
(3) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(4) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(5) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(6) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(7) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(8) Conditions for limited digestion of the heterodimer by subtilisin, removing only the carboxyl terminus, were determined.
(9) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(10) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(11) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
(12) Therefore, we conclude this is a bovine DR beta-like pseudogene, BoDR beta I. Exon-containing regions have been used as probes in Southern blot analyses of bovine genomic DNA digested with EcoRI.
(13) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(14) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
(15) Amino acid analysis indicated a significant number of serine amino acids: N-terminal sequence data demonstrated a high level of homology; and trypsin digestion followed by reversed-phase HPLC indicated the possibility of multiple phosphorylation sites.
(16) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
(17) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(18) Since the gastric motor pattern consisted of two major subpatterns, digestive and interdigestive motor activity, motilin was tested for its motor stimulating activity in both states.
(19) The product (AF-AGIIb-1) of digestion of AGIIb-1 with exo-alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase had markedly increased anti-complementary activity, as did that (AF-N-I) of N-I.
(20) The digestion products were separated by electrophoresis in agarose gels.
Egestion
Definition:
(n.) Act or process of egesting; a voiding.
Example Sentences:
(1) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(2) Intracellular recordings from these neurons in the isolated central nervous system preparation while eliciting the ingestion and egestion motor program generally showed cyclic membrane potential oscillations in phase with both motor programs, indicating that these neurons receive synaptic feedback from the ingestion and egestion central pattern generator(s).
(3) Recordings from conscious owls plus simultaneous radiographic observations revealed characteristic gastrointestinal motility patterns associated with egestion.
(4) Each of these neurons elicited the egestion motor program or its characteristic components when stimulated intracellularly.
(5) Under the same external environmental conditions, the mating type II cells form and egest a higher number of food vacuoles when compared with mating type I cells.
(6) Leucocyte-egested material was harvested after the quantitative in-vitro phagocytosis of Neisseria meningitidis by rabbit or mouse polymorphonuclear leucocytes.
(7) Biliary excretion and subsequent fecal egestion of essentially unhydrolyzed sucrose esters is the principal route for the removal of intravenously administered olestra.
(8) During pellet egestion, contractions of abdominal muscles were not detected.
(9) This suggested that the amount of newly synthesized protein required for the exocytic egestion process was very small in relation to the total cell requirement for protein synthesis.
(10) This low level lead exposure also had no consistent effect on the regular egestion of pellets of undigested material by hawks.
(11) Mucous cells apparently use some of the reserves to synthesize their secretions which lubricate cells and prevent cell damage during egestion of waste through the aboral pore.
(12) Egestion of carmine particle-containing food vacuoles from the cytoproct of Tetrahymena pyriformis has been analyzed by high-speed cinemicrography.
(13) Evidence from the literature for the transformation of food vacuole membrane into disk-shaped vesicles both from condensing food vacuoles in the endoplasm and from egested food vacuoles at the cytoproct is presented.
(14) The pellet was moved out of the esophagus by antiperistalsis during the last 8--10 s before egestion.
(15) Exerting a differential effect on all four steps, CB inhibited DV release from the cytopharynx, egestion of defecation-competent DVs at the cytoproct and lengthened the duration but did not block the lysosomal fusion-digestion step of the acidic DVs; it was most potent in blocking acidification, which prevented both lysosomal fusion with the labeled DVs as well as DV egestion, the latter for more than 50 min.
(16) It is also shown that luminal plasma membranes undergo a very active ebb and flow during the egestive phase of secretion.
(17) Their formation is connected with egestion of the large bundles of fibers formed by phagocytosis.
(18) Both faecal output and worm fecundity respond as might be predicted to a period of host food deprivation; faecal egestion and measurements of epd are significantly depressed, and measurements of epg are significantly increased.
(19) The characteristic prolonged plateau potential of the VWC was frequently associated with the egestion motor program but never with the ingestion motor program or its characteristic components.
(20) But all of those papers have a basic assumption that the capacity of the environment is so large that the change of toxicants in the environment that comes from uptake and egestion by the organisms can be neglected.