digestion

See also: digestión

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French digestion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈdʒɛstʃən/, /dɨˈdʒɛstʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛstʃən

Noun

digestion (countable and uncountable, plural digestions)

1. The process, in the gastrointestinal tract, by which food is converted into substances that can be utilized by the body.
   • 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72-3:

     Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

2. The result of this process.
3. The ability to use this process.
4. The processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms.
5. The assimilation and understanding of ideas.
6. (medicine, archaic) Generation of pus; suppuration.
7. (chemistry) Dissolution of a sample into a solution by means of adding acid and heat.

Derived terms

• predigestion

Related terms

• digest
• digester
• digestible

Translations

process in gastrointestinal tract

• Afrikaans: spysvertering, vertering
• Albanian: tretje (sq) f
• Arabic: هَضْم m (haḍm)

  Egyptian Arabic: هضم m (haḍm)

• Armenian: մարսողություն (hy) (marsoġutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: həzm (az), mənimsəmə
• Belarusian: стравава́нне n (stravavánnje)
• Bengali: পরিপাক (bn) (poripak)
• Bulgarian: храносмилане n (hranosmilane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 消化 (zh) (xiāohuà)

• Czech: trávení (cs) n
• Danish: fordøjelse (da) c
• Dutch: spijsvertering (nl) f, vertering (nl) f
• Esperanto: digesto
• Estonian: seedimine
• Finnish: ruoansulatus (fi), ruuansulatus
• French: digestion (fr) f
• Georgian: მონელება (moneleba)
• German: Verdauung (de) f
• Greek: πέψη (el) f (pépsi), χώνεψη (el) f (chónepsi)

  Ancient: πέψις f (pépsis)

• Hebrew: עיכול \ עִכּוּל m (ikúl)
• Hindi: पाचन (hi) m (pācan)
• Hungarian: emésztés (hu)
• Icelandic: melting (is) f
• Indonesian: pencernaan (id)
• Italian: digestione (it) f
• Japanese: 消化 (ja) (しょうか, shōka)
• Kazakh: асқорыту (asqorytu), қорыту (qorytu)
• Korean: 소화 (ko) (sohwa)
• Kurdish: ,
• Kyrgyz: тамак сиңирүү (tamak siŋirüü), сиңирүү (ky) (siŋirüü)
• Lao: ການຍ່ອຽອາຫານ (kān nyǭi ʼā hān)
• Latin: digestio f
• Latvian: gremošana f
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• Lithuanian: virškinimas m
• Macedonian: варење n (varenje), дигестија f (digestija)
• Malay: pencernaan
• Mirandese: digeston
• Nahuatl: tlatemohuiliztli
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fordøyelse m

  Nynorsk: fordøying f, melting f, matmelting f

• Old English: meltung f
• Persian: هضم (fa) (hazm), گوارش (fa) (govâreš)
• Polish: trawienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: digestão (pt) f
• Romanian: digestie (ro) f
• Russian: пищеваре́ние (ru) n (piščevarénije), переварива́ние (ru) n (perevarivánije)
• Rusyn: травлїня n (travljinja), діґесція f (digescija)
• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: варење n

  Roman: varenje (sh) n

• Slovak: trávenie n
• Slovene: prebava (sl) f
• Spanish: digestión (es) f
• Swedish: matspjälkning (sv) c, matsmältning (sv) c
• Tajik: ҳазм (hazm)
• Telugu: జీర్ణము (te) (jīrṇamu)
• Thai: การย่อยอาหาร
• Turkish: sindirim (tr)
• Turkmen: siňdiriş
• Ukrainian: тра́влення n (trávlennja)
• Urdu: ہضم (hazm)
• Uzbek: hazm (uz)
• Vietnamese: hệ tiêu hóa, sự tiêu hóa (vi)
• Volapük: dicet (vo), dicetam
• West Frisian: spiisfertarring, fertarring

result of this process

• Greek: πέψη (el) f (pépsi), χώνεψη (el) f (chónepsi)
• Italian: digestione (it) f
• Romanian: digestie (ro) f
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• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh m
• Spanish: digestión (es) f

ability to use this process

• Bulgarian: храносмилане n (hranosmilane)
• Scottish Gaelic: meirbheadh m
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• Spanish: digestión (es) f

processing of decay in organic matter assisted by microorganisms

• Dutch: vertering (nl) f, verteren (nl) n
• Finnish: hajottaminen (fi)
• Greek: αποσύνθεση (el) f (aposýnthesi)
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• Italian: decomposizione (it) f, digestione (it) f
• Spanish: descomposición (es) f, putrefacción (es) f

assimilation and understanding of ideas

• Dutch: verwerven (nl) n, verwerving (nl) f, assimilatie (nl) f
• Georgian: ათვისება (atviseba)
• Greek: αφομοίωση (el) f (afomoíosi)
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• Italian: assimilazione (it) f
• Spanish: digestión (es) f, asimilación (es) f
• Telugu: హరాయించుకొను (harāyiñcukonu)

Anagrams

• genistoid

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin digestio, digestionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

digestion f (plural digestions)

1. digestion

Further reading

• “digestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• digestioun
• digestiun

Noun

digestion oblique singular, f (oblique plural digestions, nominative singular digestion, nominative plural digestions)

1. digestion