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Definition: Ingestion |
IngestionNoun1. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Ingestion \In*ges"tion\, noun. [Latin expression ingestio: compare to the French expression ingestion.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The act of swallowing something through eating, drinking, or mouthing objects. A hazardous substance can enter the body this way [see route of exposure]. (references) |
| Taking into the body by mouth. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | In engine terminology, the process of intake by the engine, regardless of whether the substance is harmful or necessary to operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: IngestionSynonyms: consumption (n), intake (n), uptake (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reception | Noun: reception; admission, admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission; immission, ingestion, imbibation, introception, absorption, ingurgitation, inhalation; suction, sucking; eating, drinking; (food); insertion; interjection; introit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's not the ingestion I'm worried about (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg) | |
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 | Vibrio cholerae is transmitted to humans through the ingestion of contaminated food or water, and produces a cholera toxin, which acts on the intestinal mucosa, and causes severe diarrhea. Credit: CDC. |  | Ingestion of V. cholera contaminated water is a typical mode of pathogen transmission. Credit: CDC. |
 | A microgametocyte, a product of the erythrocytic cycle, is shown in an oval RBC. The ingestion of the gametocytes by an Anopheles sp. mosquito begins the parasitic multiplication process during the Sporogonic Cycle. Credit: CDC. |  | Cholera is caused by the Vibrio cholerae bacterium that lives among zooplankton in brackish waters, and in estuaries where rivers meet the sea. It infects humans through ingestion of such contaminated water. Credit: CDC. |
 | This virus enters an organism by ingestion of water and food contaminated by human feces, and reaches the liver through the bloodstream. HAV infection is endemic in third world countries, and is prevalent in the Far East. Credit: CDC. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Usually these symptoms occur within 24 hours of ingestion. (references) | |
The symptoms are promptly relieved upon ingestion of sugar. (references) | ||
All these approaches continue to rely on reduced calorie ingestion. (references) | ||
Business | Elderly people also tend to suffer from a "second wave" of decay, due to a dry-mouth condition (xerostomia) that is usually a side-effect of medication ingestion. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Ingestion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ingestion" is used about 184 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 184 | 22,714 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caustic ingestion | 7 |
ingestion | 4 |
hydrogen ingestion peroxide | 4 |
ingestion semen | 4 |
gasoline ingestion | 2 |
ingestion mercury | 2 |
chien ingestion | 2 |
bleach ingestion | 2 |
antifreeze ingestion | 2 |
bird by ingestion plastic sea turtle | 2 |
ingestion kerosene | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ingestion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gëlltitje (absorption, gulp, swallow). (various references) | |
Arabic | إستيعاب (absorption, assimilation, capacity, imbibition, intake, staffing), إدخال الطعام الى المعدة. (various references) | |
Chinese | 摄取. (various references) | |
Czech | přijímání potravy. (various references) | |
Danish | ingestion, indtagelse, indsugning (depression, hollow, induction, inlet, intake, suck-in, suction), foedeindtagelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | innemen (engulf), ingestie, incorporatie (incorporation), opzuigen (suck), opnemen (transfer). (various references) | |
Finnish | imu (suction). (various references) | |
French | ingestion. (various references) | |
German | nahrungsaufnahme, Ingestion. (various references) | |
Greek | έγχυση εισ τον στόμαχο, πρόσληψη τροφής,υγρού ή φαρμάκου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | táplálékfelvétel, lenyelés (swallow), elfogyasztás (depletion), bevitel (intake). (various references) | |
Italian | ingestione. (various references) | |
Korean | 섭취. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingestionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ingestão, ingestão. (various references) | |
Romanian | ingerare, înghiţire (deglutition, gulp, ingurgitation). (various references) | |
Russian | прием пищи (eating). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzimanje hrane. (various references) | |
Spanish | ingestión. (various references) | |
Turkish | yeme (nibble), mideye indirme. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | приймання їжі. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ăn vào bụng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ingestion": ingestions. (additional references) | |
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"Ingestion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: igation, Ignesti, inestion, Ingastina, Ingeslias, Pingleston. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ingestion" (pronounced i'nje"skhun) |
| 7 | -n j e" s kh u n | congestion. |
| 6 | -j e" s kh u n | digestion, indigestion, suggestion. |
| 5 | -e" s kh u n | question. |
| 4 | -s kh u n | bastion, combustion, exhaustion. |
| 3 | -kh u n | abstention, circumvention, contravention, fortune, inattention, intention, intervention, kitchen, luncheon, misfortune, Nonintervention, truncheon, urchin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ginniest. | |
-2 letters: ignites, inosite, insigne, intines, intones, nesting, noising, seining, stoning, tensing, tension. | |
-3 letters: egoist, ensign, ignite, ingest, ingots, inions, intine, intone, ionise, nitons, nonets, nosing, noting, seniti, sennit, signet, siting, soigne, sonnet, stingo, stogie, tennis, tenons, tieing, tigons, tinges, tining, toeing, toning, tonnes. | |
-4 letters: eosin, genii, gents, ingot, inion, inset, intis, neist, neons. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-i-n-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ingestions, isoantigen, moistening, monetising, sectioning, tensioning. | |
+2 letters: angiotensin, designation, geminations, indigestion, interposing, isoantigens, jettisoning, neostigmine, questioning, reignitions, resignation. | |
+3 letters: angiotensins, denigrations, designations, disorienting, evaginations, germinations, indigestions, integrations, isoantigenic, manifestoing, misorienting, negotiations, neostigmines, outdesigning, preignitions, recognitions, remoistening, resignations. | |
+4 letters: clotheslining, contingencies, disconcerting, disconnecting, discontenting, emarginations, energizations, housetraining, impersonating, impregnations, incongruities, intercrossing, interiorising, interworkings, introgression, introspecting, investigation, longanimities, miscegenation, misconnecting, orienteerings, overstraining, pigmentations, precognitions, premoistening, pretensioning, rediscounting, repositioning, skeletonising, skeletonizing, unquestioning. | |
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