digestion : Idioms & Phrases

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Gastric digestion

  • noun the process of breaking down proteins by the action of the gastric juice in the stomach
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  • (Physiol.), the conversion of the albuminous portion of food in the stomach into soluble and diffusible products by the solvent action of gastric juice.
Webster 1913

self-digestion

  • noun lysis of plant or animal tissue by an internal process
    autolysis.
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