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Ingestion

Index Ingestion

Ingestion is the consumption of a substance by an organism. [1]

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  1. 56 relations: Allergy, Animal, Bacteria, Button cell, Cell membrane, Child, Cholera, Coprophagia, Cyst, Disease, Dracunculus (nematode), Driftwood, Drinking, Drinking water, Drooling, Eating, Eggs as food, Excretion, Fecal–oral route, Feces, Flour, Food, Foreign body, Gastrointestinal tract, Grille (architecture), Hand washing, Hepatitis A, Host (biology), Irritability, Larva, List of abnormal behaviours in animals, Medication, Mouth, Muscle, Nickel, Nutrition, Old age, Oral administration, Organism, Parasitism, Pathogen, Pathogen transmission, Pica (disorder), Poison, Polio, Rash, Recreational drug use, Respiratory tract, Salmonella, Sewage, ... Expand index (6 more) »

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Allergy

Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are various conditions caused by hypersensitivity of the immune system to typically harmless substances in the environment.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Button cell

A button cell, watch battery, or coin battery is a small single-cell battery shaped as a squat cylinder typically in diameter and high – resembling a button.

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Cell membrane

The cell membrane (also known as the plasma membrane or cytoplasmic membrane, and historically referred to as the plasmalemma) is a biological membrane that separates and protects the interior of a cell from the outside environment (the extracellular space).

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Child

A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Coprophagia

Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces. Ingestion and Coprophagia are Ethology.

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Cyst

A cyst is a closed sac, having a distinct envelope and division compared with the nearby tissue.

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Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury.

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Dracunculus (nematode)

Dracunculus is a genus of spiruroid nematode parasites in the family Dracunculidae.

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Driftwood

Driftwood is wood that has been washed onto a shore or beach of a sea, lake, or river by the action of winds, tides or waves.

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Drinking

Drinking is the act of ingesting water or other liquids into the body through the mouth, proboscis, or elsewhere. Ingestion and Drinking are Ethology.

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Drinking water

Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.

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Drooling

Drooling, or slobbering, is the flow of saliva outside the mouth. Ingestion and Drooling are Ethology.

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Eating

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food.

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Eggs as food

Humans and their hominid relatives have consumed eggs for millions of years.

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Excretion

Excretion is elimination of metabolic waste, which is an essential process in all organisms. Ingestion and Excretion are digestive system.

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Fecal–oral route

The fecal–oral route (also called the oral–fecal route or orofecal route) describes a particular route of transmission of a disease wherein pathogens in fecal particles pass from one person to the mouth of another person.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

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Flour

Flour is a powder made by grinding raw grains, roots, beans, nuts, or seeds.

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Food

Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support.

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Foreign body

A foreign body (FB) is any object originating outside the body of an organism.

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Gastrointestinal tract

The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to the anus. The GI tract contains all the major organs of the digestive system, in humans and other animals, including the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Ingestion and gastrointestinal tract are digestive system.

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Grille (architecture)

A grille or grill (French word from Latin craticula, small grill) is an opening of several slits side-by-side in a wall, metal sheet or another barrier, usually to allow air or water to enter and/or leave and prevent larger objects (such as animals) from going in or out.

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Hand washing

Hand washing (or handwashing), also known as hand hygiene, is the act of cleaning one's hands with soap or handwash and water to remove viruses/bacteria/microorganisms, dirt, grease, and other harmful or unwanted substances stuck to the hands.

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Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A is an infectious disease of the liver caused by Hepatovirus A (HAV); it is a type of viral hepatitis.

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Host (biology)

In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont).

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Irritability

Irritability is the excitatory ability that living organisms have to respond to changes in their environment.

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Larva

A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.

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List of abnormal behaviours in animals

Abnormal behaviour in animals can be defined in several ways. Ingestion and List of abnormal behaviours in animals are Ethology.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Mouth

The mouth is the body orifice through which many animals ingest food and vocalize. Ingestion and mouth are digestive system.

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Muscle

Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nutrition

Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life.

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Old age

Old age is the range of ages for people nearing and surpassing life expectancy.

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Oral administration

| name.

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Organism

An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Pathogen transmission

In medicine, public health, and biology, transmission is the passing of a pathogen causing communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a particular individual or group, regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected.

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Pica (disorder)

Pica is the eating or craving of things that are not food.

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Poison

A poison is any chemical substance that is harmful or lethal to living organisms.

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Polio

Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus.

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Rash

A rash is a change of the skin that affects its color, appearance, or texture.

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Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime.

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Respiratory tract

The respiratory tract is the subdivision of the respiratory system involved with the process of conducting air to the alveoli for the purposes of gas exchange in mammals.

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Salmonella

Salmonella is a genus of rod-shaped (bacillus) gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

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Sewage

Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people.

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Sewage treatment

Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges.

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Tablet (pharmacy)

A tablet (also known as a pill) is a pharmaceutical oral dosage form (oral solid dosage, or OSD) or solid unit dosage form.

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Trichinella

Trichinella is the genus of parasitic roundworms of the phylum Nematoda that cause trichinosis (also known as trichinellosis).

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Unicellular organism

A unicellular organism, also known as a single-celled organism, is an organism that consists of a single cell, unlike a multicellular organism that consists of multiple cells.

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Virus

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.

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Vomiting

Vomiting (also known as emesis and throwing up) is the involuntary, forceful expulsion of the contents of one's stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose.

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See also

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingestion

Also known as Ingest, Ingested, Ingesting.

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