[ noun ] the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) <noun.act>
Ingestion \In*ges"tion\, n. [L. ingestio: cf. F. ingestion.] (Physiol.) The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.
We will respond with heavy ingestion of fruit juice, carrots and celery.
The Enrights claim that the ingestion of DES by Karen's grandmother set in motion an unbroken chain of events that produced Karen's injuries.
On the salt it says, `If consumed in large quantitites, sodium chloride can be highly toxic, and habitual ingestion of this compound has been shown to cause life-threatening hypertension.'
Dr. Litovitz said the center averages about 400 button battery ingestion cases a year but never so many from a single product.
Symptoms of ingestion of aldicarb include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea within one hour of eating, Lowell said.
Swift ingestion of alcohol is the only cure. Not even alcohol, though, could numb the awfulness of Oscar Araiz' version of The Carnival of the Animals.