ingest
verb (used with object)
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
ingestible
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a word derived from
ingest.
Example Sentences
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Researchers from MIT, Celero Systems, and West Virginia University hope to make that process less intrusive, using an ingestible capsule they developed that can monitor vital signs from within the patient's GI tract.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023
Tania Khazaal, known online as “Tania the Herbalist,” often posts self-portraits with long captions about eating non-GMO foods and refusing any ingestible products that contain fluoride, alcohol and aluminum.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2021
Each swallows an ingestible radio thermometer that relays deep body temperature to the chest monitor every 15 seconds via Bluetooth.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 12, 2020
Several companies that received warning letters were promoting ingestible silver as preventing Covid-19.
From Salon ● May 18, 2020
And there are prototypes of tiny, ingestible devices that can do things like automatically open car doors or fill in passwords.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2013
