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ingestive

ingestive

1 6.8
About taking food or drink into the body
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈdʒɛstɪv/
: ingestivo
  • Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating.

The first clue is that it takes a long time to develop immediately suggesting a post ingestive effect.

Examples

  • The doctor explained how ingestive behavior can affect a person's overall health and well-being.

  • They looked at food remains in the ingestive tracts of two especially well-preserved bodies to discover what they had eaten.

    Academic text (2006)

  • And what I found was the most interesting was ingestive pains disappear this problems and selective eating.

  • During the study, researchers analyzed ingestive patterns to understand how people choose their meals.

  • The ingestive response of the body to food is essential for maintaining proper digestion and nutrition.

Antonyms

excretory
  • Specialized
1 6.9

About the body's organs like the kidneys and bladder that remove waste

Surface Forms

ingestive positive

Morphology

ingestive = ingest (transparent) = ingest + ive

Formed by the verb 'ingest' plus the adjectival suffix '-ive'; the meaning 'relating to ingestion' follows directly.

Etymology

Ingestive comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and gest 'carry', so it literally means 'carry into'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of digest, which shares the same root and is about food, and that's why ingestive describes taking food or substances into the body.