ingestion

noun

in·​ges·​tion in-ˈjes-chən 

-ˈjesh-

: the act or process of taking in something for or as if for digestion : the act or process of ingesting something

A Cochrane review showed that ingestion of cranberry products may decrease the number of symptomatic urinary tract infections in women …

—Giovanni Montini et al.

Celiac disease is the immune-mediated response to ingestion of gluten from wheat, rye and barley that damages the small intestine.

—Valerie Putnam

After two years of almost manic ingestion of book after book—Montaigne, Milton, Seneca, Dante—he began to write Moby-Dick.

—Andrew Delbanco

Examples of ingestion in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Data Factory is a tool for data ingestion, integration and orchestration, enabling the creation of data flows and data pipelines from multiple sources. —Robert Kramer, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024

After ingestion, the body breaks it down into the latter — and the trip begins. —Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024

The public clouds have created mechanisms to provide compute through lambdas or functions where, on ingestion or update of an object, a custom compute can examine the data, figure out the type of data and set the right tags on it. —Manosiz Bhattacharyya, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024

In some cases, lead ingestion can cause seizures, coma or death. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1620, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

ingestion

noun

in·​ges·​tion in-ˈjes(h)-chən 

: the taking of material (as food) into the digestive system