(v. t.) To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(2) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(3) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
(4) The measurement of the intestinal metabolism of the nitrogen moiety of glutamic acid has been investigated by oral ingestion of l-[15N]glutamic acid and sampling of arterialized blood.
(5) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(6) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
(7) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(8) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(9) Potassium supplementation lowers blood pressure in hypertensive patients ingesting normal amounts of sodium.
(10) The onset of the symptoms usually occurs within a few minutes after ingestion of the implicated food, and the duration of symptoms ranges from a few hours to 24 h. Antihistamines can be used effectively to treat this intoxication.
(11) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(12) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(13) More than half of them concerned children who ingested pesticides.
(14) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(15) Throughout the 7 to 42 weeks of alcohol ingestion the alcohol-treated hamsters had a significantly higher end-diastolic pressure as compared with control animals.
(16) Nontypable H. influenzae was ingested after opsonization with much less pooled human serum than was H. influenzae type b, and uptake of encapsulated S. pneumoniae was not enhanced by as much as 80% pooled human serum.
(17) A group of 36 young adult male wistar rats was fed a protein-free diet ad libitum for five weeks; a second group of 36 wistar rats ingested a purified isocaloric 12,5% casein diet for the same period.
(18) Work over the past 17 years has consistently failed to reveal any objective sign accompanying the transient sensations that some individuals experience after the experimental ingestion of monosodium glutamate and it is questionable whether the term 'Chinese Restaurant Syndrome' has any validity.
(19) Chronic ingestion of alcohol is associated with a diminished marrow granulocyte reserve and may lead to neutrocytopenia.
(20) The hyponatremia common in decompensated cirrhotics is caused by an impairment of renal free water clearance and concomitant water ingestion.
Ingesta
Definition:
(n. pl.) That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(2) The clinical signs and clinical laboratory changes that appeared in affected horses were identifiable with severe endotoxin shock, secondary to peritoneal contamination with ingesta and bacteria.
(3) Previous experiments indicate that changes in duodenal fluid concentration of DL-lactic and volatile fatty acids (VFA) influence flow rate of ingesta and may also be a regulating factor of food intake in ruminants.
(4) Though in old age the absorption process is retarded a sufficient absorption at a longer time at diminished speed of passage of the ingesta in old age.
(5) It contains 27-32% of the wet ingesta and 20-23% of the dry matter in the gastrointestinal tract.
(6) Ruminal ingesta (300 ml) obtained from a fistulated cow fed alfalfa hay (H), 3.6 kg of grain mixture with corn silage fed ad libitum (S), 2.5:1 grain-alfalfa hay mixture (G), or a 2.5:1 grain-alfalfa hay mixture providing 545 g of sodium and calcium lactate daily (L) were incubated for 8 hr with nonpolymerized sodium lactate or 17% polymerized lactic acid neutralized to pH 6.7.
(7) Although the site of obstruction of aborad flow of ingesta is similar in both disease conditions, the differences in physical and clinicopathologic findings appear to reflect differences in the degree of reticulo-omasal orifice obstruction and the degree of abomasal vascular compromise.
(8) The initial rates of lactate metabolism for the H, G, S, and L ingesta were 0.72, 0.95, 1.8, and 3.4 meq per 100 ml of rumen fluid per hr, respectively.
(9) But for all its complexity, the passage of ingesta is reasonably rapid.
(10) Of the label recovered in the volatile fatty acids (VFA), 74.1, 61.2, 49.3, and 38.9% was recovered in acetate, and 9.4, 19.8, 23.3, and 51.9% was recovered in propionate with H, G, S, and L ingesta, respectively.
(11) The residual carcasses (i.e., minus fat pads, liver and ingesta) of DHEA-treated rats contained a significantly lower percentage of fat than those of control rats.
(12) The G, S, and L ingesta metabolized lactate to yield progressively more propionate and less butyrate.
(13) In suckling piglets we had recorded an efficiency of DCP utilization which varies parabolically with size of the ingesta and therefore with that of weight gain.
(14) Lactate-2-(14)C was incubated for 4 hr with each type of ruminal ingesta.
(15) Resting metabolic rate was determined in Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) that had been fed warm and cold ingesta.
(16) Exploratory celiotomy was performed in 69 horses, the mass was reduced by extramural massage in 67 horses, and ingesta was removed via enterotomy in 2.
(17) Surgical correction of cecal impaction in severe cases requires a ventral midline celiotomy, and exploration reveals a large ingesta-filled cecum and relatively empty large colon.
(18) In group II, fecal outputs were higher; (mean for 24 h) 862 g, 112 mmol, 10.9 g (14.2 p. 100 of ingesta), 4.2 respectively.
(19) Clinical signs were loss of condition and projectile expectoration of chewed ingesta, as far as 2 m, accomplished by forceful expiration clearing the regurgitated ingesta from the pharynx.
(20) This study was performed to determine (1) if electrical slow waves could be recorded from the colon of turkeys, and (2) how ingesta moves into and through the colon despite colonic antiperistalsis.