ingesta
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Food and drink someone eats or drinks
- noun
- /ɪnˈdʒɛstə/
- Specialized
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ingesta
- In a medical study, the researchers closely analyzed the ingesta of the subjects to understand their dietary habits.
Examples
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The chicken plant of the very near future will likely have two new systems in place: one for the automated diagnosis of wholesomeness and one for fecal and ingesta contamination, combining the Beltsville and Athens machine-vision systems.
Academic text (2002) -
The veterinarian examined the animal's ingesta to determine if it had consumed anything harmful.
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For accurate testing, the laboratory required a sample of the patient's ingesta from the previous 24 hours.
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Etymology
The word ingesta comes from the Latin parts in- meaning 'into' and gest meaning 'carry', the same root you see in ingest and digest. It originally meant 'things carried into the body', which is why doctors use it for the food and drink a person has taken in.