ingest
ingest
Definition
in·gest (in jest′)
transitive verb
to take (food, drugs, etc.) into the body, as by swallowing, inhaling, or absorbing
Etymology: < L ingestus, pp. of ingerere, to carry, put into < in-, into + gerere, to carry
ingest
Usage Examples
Object
- fluoride: Anybody with a varied diet will anyway ingest adequate fluoride.
- gram: This meant that the Ohio State athletes ingested about 30 grams of carbohydrate every 15 minutes.
- carbohydrate: The amount of food, protein and carbohydrate ingested was similar for all conditions.
- poison: Your argument about murder is wrong, today murder is often committed using ingested poisons.
- mg: Runners from one group ingested 1000 mg of vitamin C daily for one week.
- toxin: The duration before onset of symptoms depends on the time taken for ingested toxin to reach the target site.
Subject
- host: To continue the lifecycle the copepod must be ingested by the next intermediate host, a fish.
- animal: Cigarette ends can be mistaken for food and ingested by marine animals.
- human: Some of the doses will be ingested by humans breathing the smoke from the pyres.
Preposition: as
- food: Produced by Plants, ( Red kidney beans ) & ingested as food.
Preposition: over
- lifetime: The TDI is an estimate of the amount that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without appreciable health risk.
Modifying Another Word
- orally: Namely, ' colloidal silver ' , which is ingested orally in a similar way to which an antibiotic may be taken.
- accidentally: Never refill coke or drink bottles with chemical substances as these can be mistaken for drink and accidentally ingested.
- once: Once ingested, a drug is broken down by the body into chemicals called metabolites.
- daily: The TDI is an estimate of the amount that can be ingested daily over a lifetime without appreciable health risk.
- then: The infective eggs or larvae are then ingested by a cat.
Preposition: in
- quantity: Accidental or deliberate oral ingestion The product would only be expected to be harmful if orally ingested in very large quantities.
Preposition: by
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