What does "digestion" mean?
Digestion: (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
Additional senses
- 2.(Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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