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Webster 1913 Edition


Predigestion

Preˊdi-ges′tion

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Noun.
1.
Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
2.
(Med.)
Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion.

Webster 1828 Edition


Predigestion

PREDIGES'TION

,
Noun.
[pre and digestion.] Too hasty digestion.
Predigestion fills the body with crudities.

Definition 2024


predigestion

predigestion

English

Noun

predigestion (countable and uncountable, plural predigestions)

  1. The partial hydrolysis etc. of food, by enzymes or other materials, prior to normal digestion

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