单词 | ingesta |
释义 | ingestan. Physiology. With plural agreement. Substances introduced into the body as nourishment; food and drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > food and drink (a) bit (later bite) and (a) sup1546 stuff1600 ingesta1741 something1778 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 68 in A. Pope Wks. II The extraordinary quantity of the Ingesta and Egesta of the people of England. 1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 449 A substance which forms so large a portion of the ingesta, must have a powerful and constant agency upon the animal machine. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. ix. 274 Inaction due to deficiency of liquid in the ingesta. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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