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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating);
[syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ingestion
    n 1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth
         (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake,
         uptake]