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How to pronounce ingestion in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms consumption, intake, uptake
Type of activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process
Has types deglutition, drink, drinking, eating, feeding, imbibing, imbibition, suck, sucking, suction, swallow
Derivation ingest

Examples of ingestion

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This poses an ingestion hazard to infants and can lead to diarrhea and vomiting.
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Upon ingestion, a digital video stream from tape is converted to computer files.
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The kit is believed to contain items used for the ingestion of methamphetamine.
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Ingestion could lead to stomach, intestine or esophagus problems or other damage.
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Higher doeses lead to diminishing returns and a brutal cratering after ingestion.
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Information on ingestion exposure, for both humans and animals, is more abundant.
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This in turn causes human molecules to vibrate upon ingestion, curing one's ills.
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However, ingestion of stronger solutions is dangerous to human and animal life.
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Relationship between symptoms and ingestion of a meal in functional dyspepsia.
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More examples
  • Consumption: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
  • (ingest) consume: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
  • (ingest) absorb: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"
  • The action of ingesting, or consuming something orally, whether it be food, drink, medicine, or other substance. It is usually referred to as the first step of digestion
  • (ingest) To take into the body, as for digestion
  • (INGEST) to obtain food by engulfing it (as opposed to absorbing, which is what fungi do) (see PHAGOTROPHIC).
  • (Ingest) A general term for capturing or transferring video, audio, and metadata from one media storage system to another. ...
  • (Ingest) In the context of metadata, the ingest process is the method by which metadata is read into a system (e.g. a database import).
  • (Ingest) The process by which one or many captured digital image files are taken into a computer system for some form of digital asset management.