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The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

ges which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.] Bacon.

The digestion of fats.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

Defective digestion, indigestion. Coxe.

onversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne.

Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

the heart, accompanied with cardisc palpitation; heartburn. It is usually a symptom of indigestion.

A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric and pancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.

Digestion. [Obs.]

Turkey a drink called coffee . . . This drink comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion. Bacon.

A change in food produced by the organs of nutrition; digestion. [Obs.]

To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple.

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.…

Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.